Athens, Ala. -
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Tretheway will be speaking
at Athens State University on Tuesday, April 1 at 1:00 pm and 7:00
pm. These events, sponsored by the Livingston Concert Lecture
Series, will be held in McCandless Hall
and will be offered free to the public.
The 1:00 p.m.
reading will feature a question and answer period. The 7:00 p.m.
reading will be followed by a book signing and reception held in
Founder's Hall Parlor.
Trethaway was
the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book,
Native Guard that is available in the Athens State Bookstore or
at Pablo's on Market. Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Her first poetry collection, Domestic Work, won the inaugural
1999 Cave Canem poetry prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts
and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry.
Her second collection, Bellocq's Ophelia, received the 2003
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, was a finalist
for both the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin and Lenore
Marshall prizes, and was named a 2003 Notable Book by the American
Library Association. She has taught at Auburn University, the
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, and Duke University where
she was the 2005-2006 Lehman Brady Joint Chair Professor of
Documentary and American Studies. She is currently a Professor of
Poetry at Emory University.
