This year's annual Troy Lecture, in honor of the late Frederick S. (Barney) Troy, Emeritus Professor of English, will feature Natasha Trethewey. Trethewey (MFA '95) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and will deliver her talk "'You Are Not Safe in Science; You Are Not Safe in History': On Abiding Metaphors and Finding a Calling."
She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2006 collection of poetry, Native Guard. Domestic Work (2000), Trethewey's first published collection, won the inaugural Cave Canem prize for a first book by an African American poet. She holds honorary doctorates from her undergraduate alma mater, Delta State University, and from Hollins University.
The talk is free and open to the public, with a question and answer period after, and a book-signing in Bowker. Doors open at 4:00PM. Amherst Books will also have a variety of Natasha’s books available in the lobby.