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Please join us for a reading by poet Natasha Trethewey on Wednesday,
November 8, 4:00 pm at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121
Wall Street. This event is co-sponsored by the African American Studies
Department. A reception will follow; this event is free and open to the
public. For additional information about the Yale Collection of American
Literature Reading Series please visit
<a href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/">
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/</a>.
For additional information about poetry at the Beinecke Library visit:
<a href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/">
http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/</a>.<br>
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Natasha Trethewey’s first book of poems, <i>Domestic Work</i>, was
selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry
Prize for the best first book by an African American poet in 2000. Since
then, she has published two additional collections: <i>Bellocq’s
Ophelia</i> and <i>Native Guard</i>. She has been awarded the Grolier
Prize, the Margaret Walker Award for Poetry from <i>Poets &
Writers</i> magazine, and <i>QBR: The Black Book Review.</i> She has been
the recipient of fellowships from the Bunting Institute for Advanced
Study at Harvard, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim
Foundation, and the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She is
a member of the Dark Room Collective and an associate professor of
English at Emory University.<br>
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For more information and examples of Natasha Trethewey’s work visit:<br>
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<a href="http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/trethewey.html">
http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/trethewey.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/442" eudora="autourl">
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/442<br>
</a><a href="http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/winners/tretheway.html">
http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/winners/tretheway.html</a><br><br>
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