2022 Spring Workshop
April 29-30 in Douglas, Wyoming
Camille Dungy. Photo courtesy of Blue Flower Arts. © Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Plan to attend! Camille Dungy will be our guest poet at the WyoPoets 2022 Spring Workshop April 29-30 at the Converse County Library in Douglas, Wyoming.
Camille is the author of four collections of poetry, a winner of the American Book Award; and a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award.
Dungy edited "Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry" (UGA, 2009), co-edited the "From the Fishouse Poetry Anthology" (Persea, 2009), and served as assistant editor on "Gathering Ground: Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade" (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Her poems and essays have appeared in "Best American Poetry", "Best American Travel Writing", "100 Best African American Poems", and more than 30 other anthologies, plus dozens of print and online venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, VQR, Guernica, Salon.com, and Poets.org.
Her debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W. W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Other honors include two Northern California Book Awards, a California Book Award silver medal, two NAACP Image Award nominations, two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations, fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and fellowships from the NEA in both poetry and prose. Dungy is currently a Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University.
Registration now open! (Scroll down.) Watch this space! Visit camilledungy.com to learn more about our presenter.
The Spring Workshop is supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyoming Legislature.
Camille is the author of four collections of poetry, a winner of the American Book Award; and a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award.
Dungy edited "Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry" (UGA, 2009), co-edited the "From the Fishouse Poetry Anthology" (Persea, 2009), and served as assistant editor on "Gathering Ground: Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade" (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Her poems and essays have appeared in "Best American Poetry", "Best American Travel Writing", "100 Best African American Poems", and more than 30 other anthologies, plus dozens of print and online venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, VQR, Guernica, Salon.com, and Poets.org.
Her debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W. W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Other honors include two Northern California Book Awards, a California Book Award silver medal, two NAACP Image Award nominations, two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations, fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and fellowships from the NEA in both poetry and prose. Dungy is currently a Professor in the English Department at Colorado State University.
Registration now open! (Scroll down.) Watch this space! Visit camilledungy.com to learn more about our presenter.
The Spring Workshop is supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyoming Legislature.
Lodging Information
WyoPoets has secured a room block at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Douglas at the rate of $109+tax. Call (307) 358-0707 and request the WyoPoets room rate, or use the online booking link. (Use "Edit stay" to book for only one night.) Block rate good through April 15, 2022; availability limited.
Early Bird Registration
Register before April 10th for the Early Bird rate of $70. Registration includes lunch and snacks. Registrations postmarked on or before April 10 will be given the Early Bird rate. If postmarked after April 10, the rate is $75, lunch not guaranteed. You can pay at the registration table. Please fill out the contact information form, then use the PayPal form to submit your payment. You may also renew your membership when you sign up for the workshop -- please use the dropdown to select. Wyoming K-16 students are eligible for a reduced student rate at 50% off (select from dropdown). Please email proof of student status to wyopoetstreasurer@gmail.com.
