Pulitzer-winning American poet visits Seoul

SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- Pulitzer-winning American poet Natasha Trethewey
arrived in South Korea Tuesday on her first visit here to hold poetry readings
and lectures, the U.S. Embassy in Seoul said.
The 43-year-old author, who will be in Seoul through Friday, won the Pulitzer
Prize for poetry in 2007 for her work "Native Guard," which centered on black
Civil War soldiers along the Mississippi coast.
Trethewey will give several lectures at prestigious South Korean colleges,
including Yonsei University, and also discuss her poetry at a forum organized by
the American Studies Association of Korea and the Fulbright commission, the
embassy said in a press release.
Born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, Trethewey is a professor of English at
Emory University in Atlanta, where she holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished
Chair in Poetry.
The author's Pulitzer came after a trail of honors, including the inaugural Cave
Canem Poetry Prize, the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize
and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry for her first poetry collection
titled "Domestic Work."
hayney@yna.co.kr
(END)