Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Threthewey visits the Civil Rights Heritage Center in a powerful start of a month of special events.
Born in Gulfport, Mississippi to a mixed-race couple one year before the Loving vs. Virginia U.S. Supreme Court case officially ended bans on interracial marriage, Natasha Trethewey’s poetry examines “memory and the racial legacy of America.”
In partnership with the University of Notre Dame’s Initiative on Race and Resilience, Ms. Tretheway will join the Civil Rights Heritage Center to share pieces from her collection, Monument.
Ms. Trethewey has received numerous awards including the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
In what will surely be a powerful evening of poetry and conversation, join to listen and engage with the person who Academy of American Poets Chancellor David St. John called, “one of our formal masters, a poet of exquisite delicacy and poise… Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and personal experience felt more inevitable, more painful, or profound.”
This free event is offered both in-person and online without financial cost in partnership with the University of Notre Dame’s Initiative on Race and Resilience.
Event link: https://events.iu.edu/iusbcivil/event/846637-an-evening-with-natasha-trethewey
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 | 6-7:30pm
Online: https://iu.zoom.us/my/crhciusb
In-Person: Civil Rights Heritage Center
Indiana University South Bend
1040 W. Washington