Tag: Natasha Trethewey
Poet Natasha Trethewey on her new memoir and her bittersweet relationship with Atlanta
The Pulitzer-prize winner has written poems about her mother, but to tell a fuller story of her mother’s life and death, Trethewey penned a heart-wrenching, elegiac memoir called Memorial Drive.
Q&A: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey’s ‘Native Guard’ premieres at Alliance Theatre
In September, the Alliance Theatre premieres a play based on Native Guard, the Pulitzer Prize–winning work by Natasha Trethewey that pairs her experience as the child of a then-illegal interracial marriage in Mississippi with the account of a black Civil War soldier.
Q&A with Natasha Trethewey
With Emory professor Natasha Trethewey named poet laureate of the United States, discussions of Southern identity get a higher profile.
