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Rochester Reads Book Discussion: Soil by Camille Dungy In-Person
This program is offered in partnership with Rochester Reads!, an annual city-wide tradition created by Writers & Books in 2001 that inspires readers to connect to one another through the shared experience of literature.
Inaugurated in 2001 with Ernest J. Gaines’ award‐winning novel A Lesson before Dying, Rochester Reads is an annual city‐wide tradition that inspires readers to deepen self‐understanding, engage thoughtfully with important issues, and connect with one another through the shared experience of literature. Come discuss this year's pick with the Irondequoit Public Library!
In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013 with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant.
Soil functions as the nexus of nature writing, environmental justice, and prose to encourage readers to recognize the relationship between the people of the African diaspora and the land on which they live, and to understand that wherever soil rests beneath their feet is home.
- Date:
- Thursday, September 18, 2025
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Irondequoit - Lake Ontario (#113)
- Library:
- Irondequoit Public Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Book Talk Rochester Reads