{"id":10774,"date":"2010-12-13T18:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T18:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10774"},"modified":"2010-12-13T18:29:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T18:29:01","slug":"natasha-trethewey-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10774","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Trethewey: 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwls.org\/lit\/kwls_blog\/2010\/03\/natasha_trethewey_2010.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey: 2010<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwls.org\/lit\" target=\"_blank\">Littoral: The Journal of Key West Literary Seminar<\/a><br \/>\n2010-03-17<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:arlo@kwls.org\" target=\"_blank\">Arlo Haskell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativewriting.emory.edu\/faculty\/trethewey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey<\/a> is the author of three collections of poetry, including <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3097\" target=\"_blank\">Native Guard<\/a><\/em>, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, <em>Bellocq&#8217;s Ophelia<\/em>, and <em>Domestic Work<\/em>, which won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A native of<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\"> Mississippi<\/a>, a member of the Dark Room Collective, and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University, Trethewey&#8217;s work often shifts from the personal to the historical, confronting subjects that include the legacies of racism in America and her own experiences as a person of mixed race growing up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_South\" target=\"_blank\">deep South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwls.org\/lit\/podcasts\/mp3\/Trethewey_Natasha_2010_KWLS.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">this recording<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwls.org\/lit\/2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Key West Literary Seminar<\/a>, Trethewey reads a selection of poems including \u201cLimen,\u201d \u201cGenus Narcissus,\u201d \u201cMyth,\u201d \u201cMiscegenation,\u201d \u201cTaxonomy,\u201d and \u201cKnowledge: After a Chalk Drawing by J.H. Hasselhorst, 1864.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From KWLS 2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwls.org\/lit\/podcasts\/mp3\/Trethewey_Natasha_2010_KWLS.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwls.org\/lit\/podcasts\/mp3\/Trethewey_Natasha_2010_KWLS.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Clearing the Sill of the World<\/a> <\/em>(17:57) \/ 10.3 MB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Trethewey: 2010 Littoral: The Journal of Key West Literary Seminar 2010-03-17 Arlo Haskell Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry, including Native Guard, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq&#8217;s Ophelia, and Domestic Work, which won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A native of Mississippi, a member of the Dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,13,8,20,25],"tags":[4712,4713,1133],"class_list":["post-10774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-arlo-haskell","tag-kwls","tag-natasha-trethewey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}