Reminder: Hear August Wilson House Fellow Natasha Trethewey at Two Events

Faculty, staff and students can hear Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey read selections of her poetry and share insights at two events this week.

Trethewey, the inaugural Duquesne University/August Wilson House Fellow, will read from her book Monument: Poems New and Selected during An Evening of Poetry with Natasha Trethewey on Thursday, March 21, from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh at 2177 Centre Ave. Terri Baltimore, Hill House director for community engagement, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman will co-host the free event.

Trethewey will present You Are Not Safe in Science; You Are Not Safe in History: On Abiding Metaphors and Finding a Calling on Friday, March 22, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Power Center Ballroom. A reception will follow this free event in the Shepperson Suite, and select titles by Trethewey will be available for purchase. RSVP online to attend.

A two-term U.S. poet laureate, Trethewey is the author of Thrall, Native Guard, Bellocq’s Ophelia and Domestic Work. She also wrote the poetry chapbook Congregation and the prose book Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Trethewey also served as editor of The Best American Poetry 2017.