[Yale-readings] Poetry Reading: Natasha Trethewey 11-8 at Beinecke Library

[Nancy Kuhl]

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 
<http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/>http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/. 
For additional information about poetry at the Beinecke Library visit: 
<http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/>http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/.

Natasha Trethewey's first book of poems, Domestic Work, 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: Bellocq's Ophelia and Native Guard. 
She has been awarded the Grolier Prize, the Margaret Walker Award for 
Poetry from Poets & Writers magazine, and QBR: The Black Book Review. 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.

For more information and examples of Natasha Trethewey's work visit:

<http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/trethewey.html>http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/trethewey.html
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/442
<http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/winners/tretheway.html>http://www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/winners/tretheway.html


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