Tuesday, April 17, 2007

And the winner is.....

From Lexis Nexis Copyright 2007 Associated Press Worldstream April 17, 2007

Emory University professor wins Pulitzer for poetry

DATELINE: ATLANTA

Emory University associate professor of English Natasha Trethewey has been awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry."Native Guard" draws on her personal experience and Southern heritage. In the book's title work, she imagines the life of a former slave in her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, during the Civil War, in a former Union prison housing Confederate prisoners. .....

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