Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will offer a reading at Penn State as this year’s Emily Dickinson Lecturer. The reading will be held in the Freeman Auditorium in the HUB-Robeson Center on Thursday, September 29 at 6:00 pm. This reading is free and open to the public.
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). In his citation, Librarian of Congress James Billington wrote, “Her poems dig beneath the surface of history—personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago—to explore the human struggles that we all face.” A book sale and signing will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public.