Elizabeth Drew Memorial Lecture: Natasha Tretheway

Nineteenth United States Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway will share her poetry with the Bread Loaf community this summer as the 2013 Elizabeth Drew Lecturer. Tretheway’s poetry explores the historical, philosophical, social, and personal aspects of her own mixed-race heritage, investigates southern American history, and examines the strength we find in our private hopes.

Trethewey is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Emory University she is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing.