Natasha Trethewey's first collection, Domestic Work (2000), won the Cave Canem Prize for a first book by an African American poet. Trethewey is adept at combining the personal and the historical in her work. Her second book, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002), is about a fictional prostitute in New Orleans in the early 1900s. Her third book of poems, Native Guard (2006), won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
Trethewey’s many honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute, where she was a Bunting fellow. She has held appointments at Duke University, as the Lehman Brady Joint Chair Professor of Documentary and American Studies; the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; and Yale University, where she was the James Weldon Johnson Fellow in African American Studies at the Beinecke Library.
5:00 pm Meet The Speaker, McKenna Hall room 106
6:00 pm Reading, McKenna Hall Auditorium
7:00 pm Book signing, McKenna Hall
All are welcome.
Originally published at english.nd.edu.