Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Natasha Trethewey on NPR's "Fresh Air"

Natasha Trethewey: If My Mom Could See Us Now

Fresh Air from WHYY, January 20, 2009

Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book Native Guard. Her parents had an interracial marriage while it was still illegal in Mississippi, and Tretheway's poetry often draws on her childhood as a biracial child in the south.

Listen to the entire segment here (link)

Download the podcast here: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13

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