An Evening with Natasha Trethewey - The Chowdhury Prize in Literature and the Distinguished Speakers Series

Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Native Guard (2006)—for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize—and, most recently, Monument: Poems New and Selected (2018); a book of non-fiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010); and a memoir, Memorial Drive (2020) an instant New York Times Bestseller. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2017 she received the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets since 2019, Trethewey was awarded the 2020 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize in Poetry for Lifetime Achievement from the Library of Congress.

Video of the event can be found on the website of Air/Light magazine.

The entrance to the Bovard Auditorium prior to the start of “An Evening with Natasha Trethewey” (2022)

The Bovard Auditorium prior to the start of “An Evening with Natasha Trethewey” (2022)

David St. John introducing “An Evening with Natasha Trethewey” (2022)

Danzy Senna at “An Evening with Natasha Trethewey (2022)

A view of the audience at “An Evening with Natasha Trethewey (2022)

Danzy Senna at “An Evening with Natasha Trethewey (2022)

Natasha Trethewey at “An Evening with Natasha Trethewey (2022)

Natasha Trethewey in conversation with Danzy Senna at “An Evening with Natasha Trethewey” (2022)

Natasha Tretheway and David St. John at “Memoir, Poetry and Craft” (2022)

Dana Johnson, Natasha Tretheway, and David St. John at “Memoir, Poetry and Craft” (2022)