The Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the U.S. and Mississippi joins to share selections from her powerful work.
Born in Gulfport, Mississippi to a mixed-race couple one year before the Loving vs. Virginia U.S. Supreme Court case officially ended bans on interracial marriage, Natasha Trethewey’s poetry examines “memory and the racial legacy of America.”
In partnership with the University of Notre Dame’s Initiative on Race and Resilience, Ms. Tretheway will join the Civil Rights Heritage Center to share pieces from her collection, Monument.
Ms. Trethewey has received numerous awards including the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
In what will surely be a powerful evening of poetry and conversation, join to listen and engage with the person who Academy of American Poets Chancellor David St. John called, “one of our formal masters, a poet of exquisite delicacy and poise… Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and personal experience felt more inevitable, more painful, or profound.”
This free event is offered both in-person and online without financial cost and in partnership with the University of Notre Dame’s Initiative on Race and Resilience.