"Some of these people were also well-known artists." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Stone: Making and Breaking Legacies, Immaterial #immaterial #InternationalArtistDay #CamilleDungy

"I'm a bit of a chef myself." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Chia: Beyond Superfoods and Infomercials, Immaterial #immaterial #InternationalChefsDay #CamilleDungy

"He's recorded and toured with music legends like Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, and Santana, just to name a few." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Shells, Immaterial #immaterial #RayCharles #HappyBirthdayRayCharles #CamilleDungy

"The felled tree was as long as three school buses." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Wood: The Most Musical Tree in the World, Immaterial #immaterial #ArborDay #CamilleDungy

"But what if you could ID chia oil by its distinct molecular markers?" - CAMILLE DUNGY, Chia: Beyond Superfoods and Infomercials, Immaterial #immaterial #NationalChiaDay #CamilleDungy

"The story of chia is also a story of Mexico." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Chia: Beyond Superfoods and Infomercials, Immaterial #immaterial #NationalChiaDay #CamilleDungy

"He used to pour mercury on surfaces just to watch it roll around." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Metals, Part Two, Immaterial #immaterial #CamilleDungy

"And keep in mind, this was the 1980s, the height of 'Greed Is Good' capitalism, Reagan, Wall Street, and the Giorgio Armani suit." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Linen, Immaterial #immaterial #RonaldReagan #CamilleDungy

"That's the sound of a conch shell being blown into, like, a trumpet off the balcony of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Arms and Armor Court." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Shells, Immaterial #immaterial #GotoanArtMuseumDay #CamilleDungy

"It was 2007 and she was at the Tate Modern, a huge art museum in London that was built in a former power station." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Concrete, Immaterial #immaterial #concrete #GotoanArtMuseumDay #CamilleDungy

"From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I'm Camille Dungy and this is Immaterial, where we look at materials commonly used in making art and explore what the materials themselves can tell us." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Concrete, Immaterial #CamilleDungy

"The men at the podium, every one, read over their times. They read their own poems from the anthology. Then they read others. Not others as in other people's - women's - poems, which was the idea conveyed to me. No. These men read other poems of their own.

I'd flown to New York to read a single poem of my own and watch men drown out my voice and the voices of all the other women in the book."

#Soil #CamilleDungy #poetry #feminism #intersectionality

"As a concession, they said that I and the other readers should make a point of reading others' poems to that end.

When I joined the seven male readers at the venue, the organizers reminded us of our time limit and suggested I read first. I read my poem from the anthology, as well as one poem each by two other women: a wry, pointed poem by Jane Mead and a focused, hopeful poem by Audre Lorde. I kept to the specified time limit. Then I sat down. Like an obedient girl."

#Soil #CamilleDungy

Rereading #Soil by #CamilleDungy for #BookGroup

"The poetry reading promoted an anthology celebrating the varied voices of the United States. The evening's readers represented several races and ethnicities, a kind of attention to inclusivity I admired. But a few days before my flight, I found out that I was the roster's only woman. I brought this to the attention of the event coordinators, and they said it was too late to correct the lack of gender equity. "

"If you spend enough of your time around concrete architecture or contemporary art that uses concrete, you too may start to notice the material in deeper ways." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Concrete, Immaterial #immaterial #concrete #WorldArchitectureDay #CamilleDungy

"When Rachel references Richard Gere, she's talking about a movie that was a huge hit in early 1980: American Gigolo!" - CAMILLE DUNGY, Linen, Immaterial #immaterial #RichardGere #HappyBirthdayRichardGere #CamilleDungy

"Sometimes it helps to wrap yourself in fabric of protection." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Linen, Immaterial #immaterial #CamilleDungy

"But as often happens in gold-rich areas, it was first found as a shining dust in the water." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Metals, Part Two, Immaterial #immaterial #CamilleDungy

"He may be more familiar now from the television show Riverdale, but Archie's innocent, small town adventures with Betty, Veronica, and Jughead started in 1941." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Paper, Immaterial #immaterial #CamilleDungy

"Initially, the stiff cards provided protection for the cigarettes inside a soft-sided pack, but people soon started buying the products so they could collect the images of the athletes and actresses." - CAMILLE DUNGY, Paper, Immaterial #CamilleDungy