Natasha Trethewey won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Native Guard. Domestic Work won the inaugural Cave Canem poetry prize, a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. Bellocq’s Ophelia received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. In 2008, Trethewey won the Mississippi Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts for Poetry and was named Georgia Woman of the Year. She holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University.

Speaking Schedule

Thursday, April 2
Reading
3:00 p.m.

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