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SUMMARY:An Evening with Natasha Trethewey
LOCATION:Yale Center for British Art Auditorium\, 1080 Chapel Street\, New
  Haven\, CT 06511
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Stat
 es Natasha Trethewey will read from her work as the keynote of the Imagin
 ing Futurities symposium in honor of Hazel Carby. Natasha Trethewey serve
 d two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). S
 he is the author of five collections of poetry\, Monument (2018)\, which 
 was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award\; Thrall (2012)\; Native 
 Guard (2006)\, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize\, Bellocq’s O
 phelia (2002)\; and Domestic Work (2000)\, which was selected by Rita Dov
 e as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best fir
 st book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Ins
 titute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award fo
 r Poetry. In addition to her poetry\, Trethewey is the author of two memo
 irs The House of Being (2024) and Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonf
 iction\, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast\, app
 eared in 2010.\n\nShe is the recipient of fellowships from the National E
 ndowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Rockefeller Found
 ation\, the Beinecke Library at Yale\, and the Bunting Fellowship Program
  of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwester
 n University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinb
 erg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of 
 the State of Mississippi and in 2013 she was inducted into the Ameri\n\nh
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