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Jan 2021 Book Program
Thu, Jan 14
|Online Event via Zoom
Welcome back Natasha Trethewey - Professor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Poet Laureate - as she discusses the luminous memoir of her mother's life and death on Atlanta's Memorial Drive.


Time & Location
Jan 14, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Online Event via Zoom
About The Event
About the Author
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000), which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the memoir Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller…
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