April 5 event with Camille Dungy

The Poetry and Psychoanalysis interview series continues on April 5, 2014 with a program featuring the poet Camille T. Dungy. The event is free and open to the public at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, 444 Natoma Street, from 10.30 am-noon. Alice A. Jones, poet and psychoanalyst, will lead the conversation.

Camille Dungy is author of Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Crab Orchard Open Book Prize, Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010), and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006). Dungy is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009), and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Cane's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Dungy has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Dana Award, and Bread Loaf.

Poetry and Psychoanalysis at SFCP

The Poetry and Psychoanalysis interview series resumes on February 22, 2014 with a program featuring the poet C. S. Giscombe.   The event is free and open to the public, and will take place at the San Francisco for Psychoanalysis at 444 Natoma Street, San Francisco (415-563-5815), from 11.30 am to 1 p.m..  Susan Kolodny, poet and psychoanalyst, will lead the conversation.

C. S. Giscombe’s poetry books are Prairie Style, Giscome Road, Here, etc.; his book of linked essays (concerning Canada, race, and family) is Into and Out of Dislocation.  His recognitions include the 2010 Stephen Henderson Award, an American Book Award (for Prairie Style) and the Carl Sandburg Prize (for Giscome Road).  Two new prose books having to do with poetry—Border Towns and Ohio Railroads—will be published in 2014 and 2015.  He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Beginning in 2006, the interview series has featured a variety of prominent poets in conversations with poet-analysts at SFCP.  The interviews focus particularly on the process of making poems, and programs have included each poet reading from selected works.  The program is currently supported by the J. David Frankel Memorial Fund for Poetry and Psychoanalysis.  Contributions to the fund are welcome, and tax-deductible.

On April 5, the series continues with an interview with Camille T. Dungy, in conversation with Alice Jones.  Also occurring at the SFCP site, this program will occur from 10.30-noon that Saturday morning.