Please join us for our speaker, Natasha Trethewey. Natasha Trethewey is the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States. Her first collection of poems, Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000), won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. The UTSA Creative Writing Reading Series was inaugurated in 1983 when Carolyn Forché read on a Friday afternoon to a room of 100 people. For more information, please visit our website at http://colfa.utsa.edu/english/CW/cwreading.html