Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series Presents Natasha Trethewey
Public Reading: Monday, September 24th, 8:30 pm,
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
(Reception to follow)
Free and Open to the Public
also: Q&A Monday, September 24th, 4:30-5:30, 501G CL
Natasha Trethewey is the 19th United States Poet Laureate (2012-2013). She is the author of Native Guard, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia, which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and Domestic Work. Her collection Thrall was published in 2012. In his citation, Librarian of Congress James Billington wrote that her "Poems dig beneath the surface of history—personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago—to explore the human struggles that we all face."
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