Vanderbilt Reading Series: Natasha Trethewey, Poetry

On September 10, The Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series will host New York Times bestselling author Natasha Trethewey.
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Vanderbilt Reading Series: Natasha Trethewey, Poetry

Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014), while also serving as the Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi (2012-2016). She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir (2020) and five collections of poetry, including Monument: Poems New & Selected (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2020, she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry from the Library of Congress.

Location: Special Collections Library and University Archives

1101 19th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37212

6:30 - Literary Salon, First Floor Lounge

7:00 - Reading, Second Floor Lecture Hall

8:00 - Book Signing

This event is free and open to the public. Parking is available on the street and in paid lots in the area.

The Gertrude C. and Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series is named in honor of Vanderbilt founder Cornelius Vanderbilt’s great-grandson and his wife. Each semester, the series brings several professional writers to campus to read from their works and visit classes. This unique and extraordinary program gives English department students and faculty, the Vanderbilt community, and Nashville’s citizens a chance to meet and talk with some of the best writers of our day.

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