{"id":12851,"date":"2011-03-25T04:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T04:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12851"},"modified":"2012-05-24T17:16:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T17:16:30","slug":"natasha-trethewey-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12851","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Trethewey talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/events.umn.edu\/012173\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey talk<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.umn.edu\/twincities\/maps\/CMU\/\" target=\"_blank\">Theater Coffman Memorial Union<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota<br \/>\n300 Washington Avenue SE<br \/>\nMinneapolis, Minnesota 55455<br \/>\n2011-04-27, 19:30-21:00 CDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p>Cost: Free<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativewriting.emory.edu\/faculty\/trethewey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey<\/a><\/strong>, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing<br \/>\n<em>Emory University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey talks about her family&#8217;s experience on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi_Gulf_Coast\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi Gulf Coast<\/a> and how it led to her 2010 book <em>Beyond Katrina<\/em> (The University of Georgia Press). Trethewey is the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3097\" target=\"_blank\">Native Guard: Poems<\/a><\/em> (2006, Houghton Mifflin), <em>Bellocq&#8217;s Ophelia<\/em> (Graywolf, 2002), and <em>Domestic Work<\/em> (Graywolf, 2000), winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet. She has won Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, among others, and her poems have appeared in several volumes of The Best American Poetry. She is Professor of English, holding the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry, at Emory University. Reception and booksigning to follow<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/events.umn.edu\/012173\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Trethewey talk Theater Coffman Memorial Union University of Minnesota 300 Washington Avenue SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 2011-04-27, 19:30-21:00 CDT (Local Time) Cost: Free Natasha Trethewey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing Emory University Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey talks about her family&#8217;s experience on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and how it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,20,25],"tags":[1133,5771],"class_list":["post-12851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-natasha-trethewey","tag-university-of-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851","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=12851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}