Natasha Trethewey to Read on December 11th with H.C. Porter

Event featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, local artist set for Dec. 11

By Megan Holland

Sunday, December 7, 2008 6:50 AM CST

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Gulfport native Natasha Trethewey will join local artist H.C. Porter Thursday for Native Daughters: Conversations on Poetry, an event to highlight their collaboration on Porter’s new book, “Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories.”

Trethewey will open with a poetry reading, then the artists will discuss the book, for which Trethewey wrote the foreword. The publication was released in November as a companion piece to Porter’s traveling exhibit, Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories — The First Year After Katrina.

“I am very grateful to Mississippi’s daughter and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey for bringing her voice to Vicksburg for this event,” said Porter, who operates a gallery on Washington Street. “She is a poet of unsurpassed talent and honors who was gracious enough to lend her words to our ‘Backyards & Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories’ project.”

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