College of St. Scholastica
Feb. 4 from 9:30 AM – 1:45 PM
Join the College of St. Scholastica's English Department for the 2022 Rose Warner Reading Series, a free, day-long celebration of English literature for Northland teachers and students, with special guest speaker, the renowned writer and poet, Natasha Trethewey.
Natasha served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000), which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the memoir Memorial Drive (2020). Visit Natasha’s website to learn more.
Following Matasha’s keynote address in the Mitchell Auditorium, a group of smaller student discussion breakout sessions will be led by Margi, one of four Northland Writers of Distinction.
By celebrating literature and language as an antidote to the troubled world in which we live, the Rose Warner Reading Series will hopefully inspire students to explore their own “Love of Learning” through a liberal arts education on a welcoming college campus.
