Congregation
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In Gulfport, Mississippi and Decatur, Georgia, poet Natasha Trethewey reads "Congregation," a meditation about family members, friends, and landscape affected by Hurricane Katrina, and a coming to terms with autobiography and loss.
Congregation is part of the Poets in Place series, a Research Collaboration in the Humanities initiative funded through Emory University's Presidential Woodruff Fund, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost. Series producers are Natasha Trethewey and Allen Tullos.
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| Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. Poem text. |
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Recommended Resources:
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| National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast |
Selected Published Works:
Trethewey, Natasha. Bellocq's Ophelia. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2002.
———. Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010.
———. Domestic Work. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2000.
———. Native Guard. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Links:
Natasha Trethewey Discusses New Book "Beyond Katrina"
http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2010/08/natasha-trethewey-beyond-katrina.html
2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2007-Poetry
Mississippi Meditations: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina'. NPR Interview with Terry Gross
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129252666
PBS NewsHour Interview with Jeffrey Brown
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june07/trethewey_04-25.html
Poets.org entry for Natasha Trethewey
http://poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/442
Trethewey, Natasha. "Our Loss, Through the Eye of the Storm." New York Times, 28 August 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29trethewey.html
Related Southern Spaces links:
Albergotti, Dan. "Shadows along the Waccamaw." Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2008/shadows-along-waccamaw
Alexander, Elizabeth. "Natasha Trethewey interveiws Elizabeth Alexander."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2009/natasha-trethewey-interviews-elizabeth-alexander
Brown, Jericho. "Natasha Trethewey interviews Jericho Brown."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2010/naming-each-place
Hill, Sean. "The Morning with Many Tongues." Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2009/morning-many-tongues
Jones, Rodney. "An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim". Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim
Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign
Trethewey, Natasha. "Elegy for the Native Guards."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2005/elegy-native-guards
———. "Jake Adam York interviews Natasha Trethewey."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2010/jake-adam-york-interviews-natasha-trethewey
———. "Theories of Time and Space."
http://www.southernspaces.org/2005/theories-time-and-space
York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." Includes an interview with Natasha Trethewey
http://www.southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama
