16th Annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series presents Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry: Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000) which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry.
Her book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi, and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and MFA in Creative Writing Program, in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center.
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Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Cost:
FreeCategories:
- Cultural
- Cultural Center
- Display
- HCLAS
- Lectures
- School of Humanities, Fine and Perf Arts
- Writing Studies and Rhetoric
Location:
Cultural Center Theater - Leo A. GuthartHofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549
USA
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Hofstra Cultural CenterPhone: 516-463-5410
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