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Natasha Trethewey, (born April 26, 1966, Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S.), American poet and teacher who served as poet laureate consultant in poetry (2012–14). Her subjects were chiefly history (both her family’s and that of the American South), race, and memory. Trethewey was born in the Deep South to an African American mother and a white father on the centennial of Confederate Memorial Day. Interracial marriage was still against the law in Mississippi when she was born. Her mother, a social worker, and her father, a Canadian poet and teacher, divorced when she was six. Her mother married ...

Poetry, Graphic Novels and Provocative Fiction: Meet the 2022 Stellfox Honorees - Natasha Trethewey (poetry), Greg Rucka and Cully Hamner (graphic novels) and the Wu Ming collective, creator of a novel that inspired the name of QAnon, are Dickinson's 2022 Stellfox honorees.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry by English Prof. and former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, “Native Guard” premiered this weekend on Northwestern’s Chicago Campus. Directed by Alliance Theatre and staged at the Wirtz Center, the play follows Trethewey’s experiences as a child of an interracial marriage in 1960s Mississippi and the story...

Interviews An Interview With Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey’s Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000) 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. She is also the author of Bellocq's Ophelia (2002) and Native Guard (2006), the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her most recent book is Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississipi Gulf Coast (2010). Trethewey holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University and has received fellowships from the National Endowment...

UpdatedWed, Apr 14, 2021 at 2:33 pm ET Reply Former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (Photo by Jill Norton) Actor Wendell Pierce will deliver remarks for Rutgers Newark students.​ Pierce is best known for his roles on HBO’s The Wire and Tremé. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP) The New York Times' Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer prize for the "1619 Project," will get an honorary degree. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) NJ Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, who has led the state's coronavirus response, will receive an honorary degree from Rutgers this spring. (AP/Seth Wenig) Former N...