Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Natasha Trethewey is a tour de force of poetry. She is also a Pulitzer Prize winner, U.S. poet laureate, and best-selling author, not to mention an Evanston resident and a professor of English at Northwestern. Trethewey joins Chicago Humanities to discuss her book, The House of Being, while offering up a vision of writing as reclamation: of our own lives and the stories of the vanished, forgotten, and erased. She revisits the geography of her childhood, tracing the origins of her writing life in an intimate and searching meditation of her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi.

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