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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Get Out: Natasha Trethewey reading

Natasha Trethewey will read from her work at Hollins University on Thursday.

Natasha Trethewey won a 2007 Pulitzer for poetry.

Natasha Trethewey

  • What: Public reading
  • Where: Talmadge Recital Hall, Hollins University
  • When: 8 p.m. Thursday
  • Cost: Free
  • Information: 362-6451

2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry winner Natasha Trethewey returns to her alma mater Thursday to read from her work.

Trethewey, daughter of Hollins University English professor Eric Trethewey, won her Pulitzer for “Native Guard,” a book of poems probing grief and race relations. Natasha Trethewey’s mother was murdered in 1985; the book’s title refers to a regiment of black soldiers in the Civil War.

Like presidential contender Barack Obama, Trethewey is the child of a mixed-race marriage: her mother was black, her father white. “I have been asked all my life, 'What are you?’ ” Trethewey told The New York Times last year. In the 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in the Tretheweys’ front yard in Mississippi, where mixed-raced marriages were still illegal.

Trethewey has a master of arts degree in creative writing from Hollins. She teaches at Emory University.

--Kevin Kittredge
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