RECEPTION AND FUNDRAISER
Great Southern Club
Gulfport, Mississippi

May 25, 2007
7:00 -9:00 p.m.

Honoring Poet Natasha Trethewey - 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner

PHOTOS OF THE EVENT

[The Hattiesburg American]

Poet Natasha Trethewey is coming back to her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi.

Radio station WJZD is holding a reception for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner from 7:00-9:00 p.m. May 25, 2007 at the Great Southern Club in the Hancock Building in downtown Gulfport.

The event also is a fundraiser to erect a Native Guard monument on Ship Island. Trethewey's book of poems, "Native Guard," explores the role of black Union soldiers stationed at Ship Island during the Civil War. To help build the monument, organizers are asking for a $100 donation to attend the reception.

For details, call Danielle Jewett at (228) 896-5307, ext. 103. And if you go, tell us all about it.

Contact Arts & Letters editor Valerie Wells at (601) 584-3124 or vlwells@hattiesburgamerican.com.

Emory Poet Trethewey Wins 2007 Pulitzer Prize

http://news.emory.edu/Releases/Trethewey1176842239.html

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Elegy for the Native Guards
Natasha Trethewey, Emory University

 http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2005/trethewey/1a.htm

Click on Natasha's photo for a video clip tour of Ship Island (3:42 min)

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Natasha Trethewey, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/trethewey.html

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Radio Station WJZD
Gulfport, Mississippi

 http://www.wjzd.com/

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