Earth Day with Natasha Trethewey & Hawk Proof Rooster

Come out to the Day Chapel at the State Botanical Garden for The Georgia Review's fourth annual Earth Day Celebration and Spring Issue Release Party. This event is free and open to the public.

Pulitzer Prize winning author and UGA alum Natasha Trethewey will present a reading followed by the music of local duo Hawk Proof Rooster at a patio reception.

Trethewey’s latest book is a prose work, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2010. She will read from this personal study of the environmental devastation brought to her home state by Hurricane Katrina, and she will read a selection of poems as well.

Native Guard (2006), Trethewey’s most recent poetry collection, earned her the Pulitzer; her previous volumes were Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002) and Domestic Work (2000). In the fall of this year, Houghton Mifflin will release her fourth poetry title, Thrall.

Recently named poet laureate of her native Mississippi, Trethewey is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. Her numerous other awards and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She was named Georgia Woman of the Year in 2008, made a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2009, and inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2011.

This event is cosponsored by the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program of the UGA College of Environment and Design, The State Botanical Garden, and The Georgia Review with additional support from ABC Package, 2303 W. Broad St, Athens.