{"id":24431,"date":"2012-07-20T03:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24431"},"modified":"2012-07-20T03:22:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T03:22:14","slug":"u-s-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey-coming-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24431","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey coming to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.edu\/cs-ecu\/calendar.cfm?e=8588\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey coming to campus<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">East Carolina University<\/a><br \/>\nGreenville, North Carolina<br \/>\n2012-10-24 through 2012-10-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poet_laureate\" target=\"_blank\">United States Poet Laureate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativewriting.emory.edu\/faculty\/trethewey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey<\/a> will be on campus Oct. 24-25 as part of the Contemporary Writers Series. A native of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gulfport,_Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Gulfport, Miss.<\/a>, Trethewey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2006. She is professor of English at Emory University; she was named the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate in June.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTrethewey is the first Southerner to hold the post since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Penn_Warren\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Penn Warren<\/a>, the first poet laureate, and the first African-American since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rita_Dove\" target=\"_blank\">Rita Dove<\/a> in 1993.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Contemporary Writers Series aims to expose students and other readers to award-winning fiction and nonfiction writers, translators and poets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.edu\/cs-ecu\/calendar.cfm?e=8588\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey coming to campus East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina 2012-10-24 through 2012-10-25 United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will be on campus Oct. 24-25 as part of the Contemporary Writers Series. A native of Gulfport, Miss., Trethewey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2006. She is professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,13,20,25],"tags":[11342,1133],"class_list":["post-24431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-upcoming-media","category-liveevents","category-usa","category-women","tag-east-carolina-university","tag-natasha-trethewey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431","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=24431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}