Date/Time
Date(s) - May 2, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Bas Bleu Theatre
Categories
Please join the CSU Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, and Wesleyan University Press as we celebrate the release of new poetry collections by Guggenheim Fellows Camille Dungy and Dan Beachy-Quick. The event will be taking place at Bas Bleu Theatre on May 2nd from 5-7 p.m.
Old Firehouse Books will be at the event vending both the new releases as well as the past releases of these two authors. If you’d like to purchase a copy ahead of time you may do so online or in store!
About Camille Dungy
Camille Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers, and the memoir Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. She is a University Distinguished Professor, the winner of an American Book Award, and recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her new collection of poems, America, A Love Story, her first in nine years, is an honest and compassionate examination of the mounting griefs of contemporary American life. The book is part indictment, part celebration – full of gratitude, fear, resistance, and hope. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón says, “These new poems by Camille Dungy had me floored.”
About Dan Beachy-Quick
Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of eight previous collections of poetry, as well as five books of essays, and translations of Greek poetry and philosophy. A University Distinguished Teaching Scholar, he has won the Colorado Book Award, been longlisted for the National Book Award, and received fellowship support from the Lannan, Guggenheim, and Monfort Foundations. Elements and Offerings, his new collection of poems, explores the roots and connotations of “thinking” and “thanking,” embracing the hope that to think is to learn to thank, and to thank is to learn to think. Poet David Baker says, “Beachy-Quick is one of our most erudite contemporary poets yet one of our most soulful.”