Event Date:
October 7, 2012 - 5:00pm
Gwinnett Reads 2012
Natasha Trethewey
Part of Fall Into The Arts:
An Evening with Poet Laureate of the United States
and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Native Guard and Thrall.
Sunday, October 7th, 2012
Georgia Gwinnett College Student Center
5:00 PM
Doors open 4:45 PM. Book sales begin at 4:30 PM.
Doors open 4:45 PM. Book sales begin at 4:30 PM.
Light refreshments will be served.
Music will be provided by Joyce Parks, director of the B.J. Chorale.
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The 2012 Gwinnett Reads author is Pulitzer Prize winner and the Poet Laureate of the United States, Natasha Trethewey. Her work combines free verse with more traditional forms like the sonnet and the villanelle to explore memory and the racial legacy of America.
Born in Gulfport, Mississippi, Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry: Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000), Bellocq's Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), and Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of a book of creative non-fiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Georgia, 2010.) Join us as we celebrate the release of her newest book, Thrall.
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Joyce Parks has been making music in Gwinnett County for over 40 years. Currently she serves as organist/accompanist for Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church. In addition, she is a founding director of BJ
Musical Productions, LLC, and is Artistic Director of BJ Chorale. Joyce plays and accompanies throughout the metro area. Since her retirement from teaching in Gwinnett Public Schools, she has added folk harp to the number of instruments she plays. |
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Gwinnett Reads is the library's
annual county-wide reading event
-- a Gwinnett tradition since 2003.
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