FARMINGTON — Camille T. Dungy will read from her work at noon Thursday, Oct. 1, as the Lunchtime Poet in the University of Maine at Farmington’s bachelor of fine arts in creative writing program.

The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.

A finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award, Dungy is the author of “What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison.”

She is editor of “Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry” and co-editor, with Jeffrey Thomson and Matt O’Donnell, of “From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great.”

Dungy, who has received numerous fellowships and awards, is also assistant editor of “Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade.”

A graduate of Stanford University and the University of North Carolina, Dungy is associate professor in the creative writing department at San Francisco State University. Her poems have been published widely in anthologies and in print and online journals.
Dungy will read from her work in room C123 in the UMF Olsen Student Center.