Join us for a free, day-long celebration of English literature for Northland teachers and students, with our special guest speaker, the renowned writer and poet, Natasha Trethewey.
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. All you need to do is show up. We’ll do the rest.
The Rose Warner Reading Series looks forward to welcoming you and your wonderful students to the St. Scholastica campus in Duluth, and to sharing time with the nation's engaged citizens of tomorrow.
For all inquiries, contact the event organizer, Dr. Kevin Quarmby, at kquarmby@css.edu. I am happy to answer any questions and ensure you receive further updates.
Dr. Kevin A. Quarmby
Rose Warner Professor of English
Natasha Trethewey 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). Her book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Visit Natasha Trethewey’s personal website to learn more about the author.
When? February 4, 2022 from 9:30 AM – 1:45 PM
Where? The College of St. Scholastica
9:30 AM - Continental breakfast in the Mitchell Foyer
10:00 AM - Welcome in the Mitchell Auditorium
10:30 AM - Keynote Address by Natasha Trethewey
11:15 AM - Breakaway Session 1 with Northland Writers of Distinction
12:00 PM - Lunch in the Greenview Dining Room
1:00 PM - Breakaway Session 2 with Northland Writers of Distinction
1:45 PM - Event wrap-up
Following a 9:30 AM continental breakfast, 10:00 welcome, and 10:30 keynote address by Natasha Trethewey in the Mitchell Auditorium, a group of smaller student discussion breakout sessions will be led by Northland Writers of Distinction. The College will provide free refreshments throughout and lunch in the Greenview Dining Room. After lunch, the student breakout sessions will reconvene, and the event will wrap up at 1:45 PM.
Please note that face masks are required in all indoor spaces at The College of St. Scholastica. For more information about our health and safety guidelines, visit our Safe Return webpage.
For a list of Natasha Trethewey’s publications and to purchase Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir in advance, please visit Duluth's Zenith Bookstore.
Volume orders and discounts are available upon request.
