An Evening of Poetry with Camille Dungy, Robin Ekiss, and Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Camille T. Dungy is author of Suck on the Marrow and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison.  She is a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. She is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), winner of the Northern California Book Awards' Special Recognition Award and NAACP Image Award nominee.  She is also co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009), and assistant editor Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade.  She serves on the Advisory Board for the Poetry Book Club at The Rumpus.  She is associate professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart and Apocalyptic Swing, which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. Her poems have been featured in the Washington Post and on Garrison Keillor's Poet's Almanac and in numerous journals. She also writes the Sports Desk column for The Best American Poetry blog and is the Virtual Editor for Broadsided Press.  She is on the advisory board of The Rumpus' Poetry Book Club.  She lives in Los Angeles.