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Poet Natasha Trethewey to Give Reading March 6 at UNCG

GREENSBORO – Poet Natasha Trethewey will read from her works at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, in the Faculty Center at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The reading is open to the public at no charge, and will be followed by a reception and book signing. Her books will be available for purchase before and after the reading. The event is sponsored by the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program. More information is available by calling the program at 334-5459 in the UNCG Department of English.

Trethewey is author of two collections of poetry from Graywolf Press, “Bellocq’s Ophelia” and “Domestic Work.” The latter was selected by Rita Dove to receive the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet.

Her work appears widely in a variety of journals including Callaloo, The Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, and The Southern Review. Her poem “Storyville Diary” won the Grolier Prize, an annual award from the Grolier Bookstore in Cambridge, MA, and the Margaret Walker Award for Poetry from Poets & Writers Magazine. Her other honors include the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliff Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Trethewey is an assistant professor of creative writing at Emory University and lives in Decatur, GA.

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