Natasha Trethewey at Yale 11/18 4 p.m.

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Wednesday, November 18 2009
4:00pm

Natasha Trethewey at Yale

Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
presents Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey is the author of Domestic Work (selected by Rita
Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the
best first book by an African American poet), Bellocq’s Ophelia, and
Native Guard, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Trethewey has received awards and fellowships from the Radcliffe
Institute at Harvard, the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is
Professor of English at Emory University where she holds the Phillis
Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry. She is the 2009 James Weldon
Johnson Fellow at the Beinecke Library.

Beinecke Library
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
Contact: nancy...@yale.edu

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