ZOOM - Camille T. Dungy Speaks on Soil for Rochester Reads! Online
Join us in welcoming author Camille T. Dungy to Rochester and hear her speak live from the Memorial Art Gallery!
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.
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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. This year's selection is Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy.
- Date:
- Thursday, October 9, 2025
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Library:
- Parma Public Library
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Adults Seniors Teens
- Categories:
- Celebration Community Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Food/Nutrition Gardening Genealogy Lecture/Presentation Local History Rochester Reads Science & Nature