Camille interviewed for the Manchester Journal by Telly Halkias

Telly Halkias talked to Camille about DIAMONDS for the Manchester Journal and Bennington Banner:

Q: Finally, tell us something about yourself you would really like everyone to know.

A: Living in Vermont changed me. When I moved here, I thought that I was uninterested in writing what I called “nature poetry.” But, the landscape can’t be ignored here. When I first moved, we lived on a top of a hill that overlooked farms, which sprawled upward into more hills, then to the mountains. Possibly because I was often at home by myself with a baby, I began to pay attention to clouds, birds, flowers. When there was a full moon, it was an event! When I heard that someone spotted a catamount, I asked my local friends for advice. One person said, “Don’t act like food.” These moments began to enter my poems in unexpected ways.