Natasha Trethewey featured in DVD Anthology "POETRY ATLANTA:TROUBLE & HOPE"

Trouble & Hope is DVD anthology of poets in performance and conversation more than two years in the making. The film features some of Atlanta's finest poets and spoken word artists. Featured on the DVD are: Travis Denton, Kodac Harrison, Karen Head, Collin Kelley, Alice Lovelace, Opal Moore, Natasha Trethewey, Dan Veach, Megan Volpert and a special tribute to the late Shannon Leigh.

Read more about the DVD and the upcoming viewing at the Georgia Center for the Book here:
http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/

Natasha Trethewey to take part in The Fourteenth Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

June 1, 2009

Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

Poets House presents

The Fourteenth Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge
Monday, June 8, 6:30pm

with poets Hettie Jones, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Lux, Natasha Trethewey and Kevin Young, and actor Bill Murray.

Read more about the event here:
http://njpoetspoetry.blogspot.com/2009/06/poetry-walk-across-brooklyn-bridge.html

Natasha Trethewey in the JoongAng Daily

Pulitzer poet stirs Korean sorrow

Trethewey’s visit provides inspiration for young generation of writers

May 05, 2009

	Natasha Trethewey

By Hannah Bae, Contributing writer

With their focus on the black Southern experience, the poems of Natasha Trethewey may not appear immediately relevant to Korean audiences. But oppression, loss and the aftereffects of war are familiar to the psyche of both South Korea and the American South, a message that emerged in the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s series of lectures in Seoul last week.

“I’m constantly talking about historical memory,” Trethewey, a professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, said Friday before her lecture at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College. “I’d like to present a fuller version than what’s always been told by the white men.”

Read the entire article here:
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2904376

Natasha Trethewey to Read for the Cropper Writers' Series

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Comes to USD

Take a journey through the depths of the deep South this Friday with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, whose body work has been described as “muscular, luminous poems (that) explore the complex memory of the American South.”

She’ll take the stage at USD as the focus of the Cropper Writers’ Series; her most recent collection of poems, Native Guard, explores the story of one of the first black regiments to fight during the Civil War. The work is said to be “both a pilgrimage and an elegy,” in which Trethewey “skillfully employs a variety of poetic forms to create a lyrical monument to these forgotten voices.”

Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Native Guard, becoming on the fourth African American to win the esteemed award. The book includes passages that honor her mother and recalls her parent’s interracial marriage, which was still illegal in 1966 in Mississippi. The poet brings a tremendous strength to the Cropper Writers’ series through her work, which focuses on the public and personal aspects of ancestral remembrance.

Read the entire article here:
http://www.sandiego.edu/insideusd/?p=2331

Natasha Trethewey Visits James Madison University

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Visits JMU
Harrisonburg, Va.
Mar 23, 2009

James Madison University hosted a Pulitzer Prize winner Monday night. Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her recent collection of poems, "Native Guard."

Read the entire article here:
http://www.whsv.com/news/headlines/41723402.html


Watch the WHSV3 Interview here:
http://ww2.whsv.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=3578211&h1=Pulitzer%20Prize%20Winning%20Poet%20Visits%20JMU&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=52881&LaunchPageAdTag=News&fvCatNo=&backgroundImageURL=&activePane=info&rnd=39902383

Natasha Trethewey in The Natchez Democrat

Mississippi natives honored

By Adam Koob | The Natchez Democrat

Published Sunday, February 22, 2009

NATCHEZ — On Saturday evening the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration honored two Mississippi natives with the Richard Wright Excellence Award.

Authors Carolyn Haines and Natasha Trethewey were recognized for their excellence in writing.

Haines, a novelist, and Trethewey, a poet, were both at the event to accept their awards.

While the authors credited Wright and Eudora Welty, the celebration’s honoree, as the initial inspirations for their works, both gave thanks to their fellow Mississippians for their ongoing inspiration.

Read the entire article here:
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2009/feb/22/miss-natives-honored/

Spring Garden Press at AWP 2009

Spring Garden Press & The Greensboro Review will be sharing Table 455 in the Northwest Hall of the Book Fair.

Members of the Spring Garden Press Editorial Board will be reading at the following events:


Thursday- February 12, 2009
1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.

Waldorf, 3rd Floor. R170. New England Review 30th Anniversary Reading. (Keith Lee Morris, Shannon Cain, Brock Clarke, Natasha Trethewey, Carl Phillips, Jennifer Grotz) New England Review's anniversary reading highlights the diversity of talent that has characterized this quarterly for thirty years. Literary magazines are often fleeting enterprises, but New England Review has been publishing new and established writers since 1978. Three poets and three fiction writers who have appeared recently in our pages will read from their work. Come hear some of the voices that have distinguished and sustained this publication through the past three decades.

4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.

Lake Erie, 8th Floor.R201. University of Michigan MFA Program Alumni Reading. (Sean Norton, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Tung-Hui Hu, Nami Mun, Patrick O'Keeffe, Jason Bredle, Tung-Hui Hu) This reading will feature several notable alumni from the U-M MFA Program and will focus on the varied approaches to aesthetics that have traditionally been a hallmark of the program.

Friday- February 13, 2008
3:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

Boulevard Room A,B,C, 2nd Floor. F171A. Poetry and Comix. (Tony Barnstone, Bryan D. Dietrich, A. Van Jordan, Stephen Burt, Chad Parmenter) Writers whose work adapts to comic books (and their movie adaptations) will discuss how poetic form relates to the intrinsic narrative and visual form of comix, how to and whether one can unironically approach "low" culture material without risking bathos, ways in which comic book poems can be adapted to new media, and how comic books provide the mythos for our time, a common frame of reference, a manifestation of philosophical and religious themes, and psychological wish-fulfillment and dreams.

Saturday, February 14th, 2009
11:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
BOA Editions, Tables 361-362, Book Fair. Dan Albergotti book signing.

6:30PM

"Love on the Line" Poems About Love
Location: Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor
Cost: Free admission
Website: http://poetrycenter.org
Poets Cynthia Atkins, Frank Bidart, Kurt Brown, A. Van Jordan, Paul Muldoon, Elise Paschen, and Robert Polito read selections from their work. Co-sponsored by The Poetry Center of Chicago, The Writing Program, and The Department of Exhibitions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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

Natasha Trethewey Featured at Native Guards Symposium

Join me at Native Guards Symposium

Ser Sesh Ab Heter-CM Boxley
Sunday, January 4, 2009

I, in my capacity as coordinator of Fort McPherson Sons and Daughters of U.S. Colored Troops and Sailor Chapter, will serve as the uniformed representative honor guard at the Native Guards Symposium in Biloxi on Jan. 10.

This is an Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art opening reception and symposium event highlighting the Second Regiment of Louisiana Native Guards who served at Ship Island during the Civil War.

An exhibit titled “Native Guard: A Photographic History of Ship Island’s African American Regiment” will be at the museum. The museum is hosting an opening and book signing reception honoring Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Gulfport native Natasha Trethewey from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 9, at its 1596 Glenn Swetman St.

At 9 a.m. Jan. 10, a Native Guards Symposium and book signing with Trethewey will be held at Bancorp South. The symposium features a panel of experts on the black military experience during the Civil War, specifically the Second Regiment of Louisiana native guards at Ship Island.

Key presenters are James G. Hollandsworth Jr., Nana Bennie McRae Jr., and C.P. (Kitty) Waver.

An evening reception honoring Trethewey will be in the home of Julie and John Gustafson in Ocean Springs from 5 to 7 p.m. on Jan. 9.

Read the entire article here:
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2009/jan/04/join-me-native-guards-symposium/

Natasha Trethewey's "Native Guard" Inspires Symposium at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

Coast native’s book inspires symposium
By Pam Firmin - pfirmin@sunherald.com

An exhibit and symposium inspired by the title poem in Natasha Trethewey’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning book “The Native Guard” will debut Jan. 9 as “The Native Guard: A Photographic History of Ship Island’s African American Regiment,” the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art announced Thursday.

Trethewey will be guest of honor at the exhibit’s opening reception and book signing from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 9 at the museum, 1596 Glenn Swetman St., Biloxi. At the symposium, which is the next day from 9 a.m. until noon at Bancorp South, she will read from “The Native Guard.” Both events are free but symposium seating is limited to 75 so reservations are suggested.

The exhibit will be up through Feb. 20.

Read the entire article here:
http://www.sunherald.com/arts/story/1026062.html

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

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.”

Read the entire story here:
http://www.vicksburgpost.com/articles/2008/12/07/features/doc49393a127a08e854064005.txt

Dan Albergotti at "Southern Spaces"

Shadows along the Waccamaw

Dan Albergotti, Coastal Carolina University

Overview:

Dan Albergotti reads five poems in and around his current home of Conway, South Carolina, in locations that include the Waccamaw River and nearby Pawley's Island. For Albergotti, the natural world allows explorations of beauty, love, serendipity, and death. His poems also examine the "emotional landscape of denial" that marked his childhood and youth.

See the entire presentation here:
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/albergotti/1a.htm

Natasha Trethewey Featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ELECTION 2008: The Challenge of Change

Race
A personal essay by Natasha Trethewey
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sunday, November 09, 2008

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, an Emory University professor, considers the election of America’s first biracial president in terms of her own mixed background. Her poem below imagines her pregnant mother in the Deep South contemplating her unborn child’s uncertain future.

A few years ago, when I was working on the poem, “My Mother Dreams Another Country,” I was compelled to consider what my mother must have been thinking —- in 1966 —- about the biracial child she and my father were bringing into the world. The year before, my parents had broken two laws of the state of Mississippi by traveling to Ohio to marry and then returning to my mother’s home state. It was just after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, but still before the Supreme Court decision in Loving v. State of Virginia in which state anti-miscegenation laws were ruled unconstitutional. And it was years before those unconstitutional state laws were no longer enforced —- by custom, by intimidation, and by other deterrents imposed upon couples seeking marriage licenses. Barack Obama was just 5 years old when my mother was contemplating another country —- another America —- in which interracial marriage would be legal in the entire country. In 1961, when Obama was born, 21 states still had laws forbidding the marriage of his parents —- of blacks to whites.

Read the entire essay here:
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/11/09/trethewey.html

Listen to Natasha read the essay here:
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/11/09/trethewey.html#