Natasha Trethewey
Trethewey has published five books of poetry including Monument: Poems New & Selected (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award, and Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. She is also the author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010) and Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir (2020), a New York Times bestseller.
Tretheway was named the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in 2012 and selected for a second term a year later. Her many honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, and election to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets in 2019. The Library of Congress awarded her the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry in 2020. Information via willson.uga.edu
agenda:
Opening Remarks
David Ragsdale, English Department Co-Chair
Introduction of Featured Guest and Moderated Discussion
Luna Reichert, iliad Co-Editor-in-Chief and Salai Diekumpuna, iliad Outreach Director
Closing Remarks
Kaija Gilbertson Hall, iliad Co-Editor-in-Chief
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