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Poets Writing Prose: 2018 National Book Festival

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2018 · Education

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Camille T. Dungy presents "Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History," Patricia Lockwood presents "Priestdaddy: A Memoir" and Patrick Rosal presents "Brooklyn Antediluvian: Poems" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. 

Speaker Biography: Camille T. Dungy has published the poetry collections "Trophic Cascade," "Smith Blue," "Suck on the Marrow" and "What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison." She has also written "Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History" (Norton), a collection of essays. Dungy is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and is also a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Cave Canem. She is a two–time recipient of the California Book Award. 

Speaker Biography: Patricia Lockwood is the author of the memoir "Priestdaddy" (Riverhead), which The New York Times named one of the 10 best books of 2017. She has also published two poetry collections, "Balloon Pop Outlaw Black" and "Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals," a New York Times Notable Book. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slate and the London Review of Books. She has had the somewhat unique experience of being raised by a Catholic priest, which her father became when he converted from being a Lutheran minister to Catholicism. Lockwood lives in Lawrence, Kansas. 

Speaker Biography: Patrick Rosal's latest book, "Brooklyn Antediluvian: Poems" (Persea), was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry. His previous collections are "Boneshepherds," "My American Kundiman" and "Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive." Rosal is a Fulbright Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and a Lucas Arts Fellow. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, Tin House, Drunken Boat, Poetry and the New England Review. He teaches at Rutgers University at Camden and lives in Philadelphia. 

For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8458

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