A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler - December 2011

Natasha Trethewey is author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (U of Georgia P); Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin), for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002) which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association; and Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000). Her collection Thrall is due for publication in 2012.