Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Natasha Trethewey, Monday, March 23

From: Furious Flower Poetry Center and CMSS

The Furious Flower Poetry Center and CMSS present Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey, Monday, March 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM in the Grafton Stovall Theatre.

Ms. Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her most recent collection called Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin 2006).
Natasha Trethewey currently holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair and is Professor of Poetry in the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. In addition to having taught at Auburn University, she has taught at 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 received the Mississippi Governor's Award for Literature in February 2008.
Selections from soloist Dr. Carrie Stevens and the Chorale from the School of Music will also be featured.
There will be a short reception after the performance for book signing.

The event is free and open to the public.