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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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