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May 19, 2013 RHINO Poetry Workshop
Evanston, IL
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May 30, 2013 Harriet Reading Series
Chicago, IL
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Jun 7, 2013 Brooksday
Chicago, IL
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Jun 14, 2013 Jennifer Dotson Reading Clever Gretel
Highland Park, IL
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Jun 15, 2013 Poets in the Parlor
Springfield, IL
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| Featured Poets: | Natasha Trethewey |
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February 5, 2013, 7 p.m.
Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL
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When she was named the 19th United States Poet Laureate in June 2012, Natasha Trethewey was among the youngest poets appointed to the post, the first African American since Rita Dove, and the first Southerner since Robert Penn Warren. Born in Gulfport, Mississippi, she is the author of four collections of poetry, including Native Guard, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, and Thrall, her latest volume of verse. Librarian of Congress James Billington has written that Trethewey’s poems “dig beneath the surface of history—personal and communal, from childhood or from a century ago—to explore the human struggles we all face.” |
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| Sponsored by Poetry Foundation |
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| Info: |
312-799-8065 kgecan@poetryfoundation.org http://www.poetryfoundation.org/programs/event/1983 |
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