NATASHA THRETEWEY, CAMILLE DUNGY, CECIL GISCOMBE READ AT SF MOMA March 13, 2008
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Another Country: Poets, Place, Photography
Poets Natasha Thretewey, Camille Dungy, C.S. Giscombe read and speak
6:30 p.m. Phyllis Wattis Theater
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Natasha Trethewey’s latest poetry collection, Native Guard — winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry — looks to her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi, to reflect on personal and national histories. She animates a Union regiment of African American soldiers guarding Confederate prisoners in the Civil War, weaving this almost forgotten history with that of her parents’ interracial marriage in 1965, which was illegal in Mississippi at the time. Camille Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (2006). UC Berkeley’s C.S. Giscombe — author of Here, Giscombe Road, and Inland, among others — joins Trethewey and Dungy for a reading motivated by American places, pictures, and memories.
$10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors.
Please note: There is a maximum of 6 tickets per order. A $3 per-ticket processing fee will be applied to all general, student, and senior tickets purchased online. A $0.75 per-ticket processing fee will be applied to all SFMOMA member tickets purchased online. Tickets are also available at the Museum (with no surcharge).
