{"id":5377,"date":"2010-02-20T02:27:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T02:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2013-02-20T04:51:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:51:47","slug":"natasha-tretheway-reads-at-ecu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5377","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.edu\/english\/TCR\/26-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.edu\/english\/TCR\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Common Reader<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.edu\/english\" target=\"_blank\">Newsletter of the ECU Department of English<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Carolina University<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 26, Number 6: May 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa DeVries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On April 2, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativewriting.emory.edu\/faculty\/trethewey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey<\/a> visited East Carolina University for a public reading and book signing organized by fellow poet and friend John Hoppenthaler.\u00a0 She won the Pulitizer Prize for her 2006 book of poetry, <em>Native Guard<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin), the third African American woman to win the award, following in the tradition of Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove.\u00a0 Trethewey is also a professor of poetry at Emory University and holds the Phyllis Wheatley Distinguished Chair.\u00a0 She Has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts.\u00a0 Her previous works include <em>Domestic Work<\/em> (Graywolf Press, 2000) and <em>Bellocq&#8217;s Ophelia<\/em> (Graywolf Press, 2002).\u00a0 <strong>Her most recent work deals with telling the untold stories of history, identity politics, racism, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>.<\/strong> She claims that she writes only what she is given, &#8220;a violent history and the terrible beauty of my South, my Mississippi.&#8221;\u00a0 [Interview and photos by Lisa DeVries.]<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.edu\/english\/TCR\/26-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU The Common Reader Newsletter of the ECU Department of English Eastern Carolina University Volume 26, Number 6: May 2008 Lisa DeVries On April 2, Natasha Trethewey visited East Carolina University for a public reading and book signing organized by fellow poet and friend John Hoppenthaler.\u00a0 She won the Pulitizer Prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13743,8,20,25],"tags":[2249,1133,2250],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-lisa-devries","tag-natasha-trethewey","tag-the-common-reader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377","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=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}