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Natasha Trethewey was inspired by her personal history and the broader historical context of the American South. The intersection of her own experience as the daughter of a mixed-race marriage and the largely untold story of the Louisiana Native Guards, an African American regiment during the Civil War, motivated her to explore themes of memory, loss, and racial identity.
And Trethewey’s prose captures memory with poetic precision.”―W. Ralph Eubanks, NPR’s “All Things Considered”. Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by hurricane Katrina. Trethewey spent her childhood in Gulfport ...
13 set 2013 · Natasha Trethewey. Born on April 26, 1966 in Gulfport, Mississippi, Natasha Trethewey was appointed the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States in 2012. She is currently serving her second term in this position in Washington, DC. Trethewey is also the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.
19 lug 2020 · Interracial marriage was illegal in Mississippi when Natasha Trethewey’s parents, Gwendolyn and Eric, met there at college in the mid-1960s, so they crossed the river into Cincinnati, Ohio, to ...
The opening poems of “Monument” set the stage for Trethewey’s exploration of memory. Here, she often uses the first-person narrative to establish a connection between her own experiences and broader historical events. For example, in one of the early poems, she writes: “I stand at the edge of disaster, looking in.”.
8 giu 2010 · Natasha Trethewey, the author of several poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Native Guard," recently journeyed to North Gulfport, …
The Folger and the Eudora Welty Foundation join together to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as she receives the 2024 Eudora Welty Prize. Staged at Washington DC’s famed National Press Club , Natasha will present her lecture inspired by the writing and life of famed author Eudora Welty.
