Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 . 5:30PM
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey
Special Announcement: 

Event Location: This event takes place in the Ulrich Recital Hall in Tawes Hall, not The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Ticket Retrieval: You may pick up your tickets in advance from The Clarice ticket office. On the day of, you may pick them up from Ulrich Recital Hall starting at 4:30PM.

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Estimated Length: 
90 minutes

U.S. Poet Laureate and Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emory University

As the United States Poet Laureate and the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, Natasha Trethewey writes poetry as social action, from the intersections of living memory and political, cultural and social history. The recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, her work speaks to many scholarly themes including race relations, identity, social activism and cultural memory.