THURSDAY, APRIL 21:
NATASHA TRETHEWEY
(5:30pm, Stearns Space)
\Poet Natasha Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000), Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), and Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of a book of creative non-fiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Georgia, 2010).
Her first poetry collection, Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000), won the inaugural 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize (selected by Rita Dove), a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Bellocq's Ophelia, received the 2003 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, was a finalist for both the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin and Lenore Marshall prizes, and was named a 2003 Notable Book by the American Library Association. Her work has appeared in several volumes of Best American Poetry, and in journals such as Agni, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The Southern Review, among others. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University, and an M.F.A in poetry from the University of Massachusetts. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Trethewey is also the recipient of the 2008 Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and was named the 2008 Georgia Woman of the Year. In 2009 she was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers and she was the James Weldon Johnson Fellow in African American Studies at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. During the 2005-2006 academic year she was Lehman Brady Joint Chair Professor of Documentary and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Her fourth collection of poetry, Thrall, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Fall 2012. This year she will be inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.
Watch a video of Natasha Trethewey's reading at Emory University on May 8, 2007 in honor of her Pulitzer Prize.
See photos from the May 8 dinner and reading:
http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/tretheweyeventphotos.html
http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/tretheweyeventphotos2.html
http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/tretheweyeventphotos3.html
Interviews on NPR's Fresh Air with Terri Gross:
July 16, 2007: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12003278
January 20, 2009: Natasha Trethewey was featured in a special Inauguration Day edition of National Public Radio's "Fresh Air." Trethewey, who attended the inauguration, talks with host Terri Gross about the significance of the day for the country's -- and her own -- racial history, and reads "My Mother Dreams Another Country" from her Pulitzer-Prize winning collection, Native Guard, and recites Langston Hughes' powerful verse, "I, Too, Sing America. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99474984
Watch two videos of Natasha Trethewey reading her poetry:
"Theories of Time and Space"
"Elegy for the Native Guards"
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