This event is now available to watch on our
YouTube page, along with the rest of our 2020 festival programming.
Co-presented by
Museum of the African Diaspora. This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.“Haunting, powerful, and painfully stunning...Trethewey writes the unimaginable truth with a clear-eyed courage that proves, once again, that she’s one of the nation’s best writers.” —Ada Limón, author of
Bright Dead Things and NBCC award-winner
The CarryingAt age 19, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.
The new memoir
Memorial Drive, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, moves through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, plumbing her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985. An instant
New York Times bestseller,
Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence, but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. In conversation with poet and professor Tonya M. Foster.
FREE, $5-10 suggested donationRegistration is required for Zoom access. Spots are limited.
Event will also be livecasted on Facebook Live.
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