Friday, December 19, 2008

Natasha Trethewey on "The Atlanta Forum Network"

The Georgia Review: Natasha Trethewey and Stephen Dunn

Cosponsored by The Georgia Review, the Margaret Mitchell House welcomes Pulitzer prize-winning poets Natasha Trethewey and Stephen Dunn.Trethewey's most recent collection is Native Guard, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. A professor at Emory University, 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. Her poetry collections include Domestic Work and Bellocq's Ophelia. Dunn is the author of 16 books, including Different Hours, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Since 1974 he has taught at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, where he is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing. Dunn is the recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and three NEA Creative Writing Fellowships.

Read the entire article and watch or listen to the reading here:
http://www.pba.org/afn/event.php?forumEventId=2104

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