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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will speak at the University of Tampa on Thursday, Feb. 6, from 6-7 p.m., in the Charlene A. Gordon Theater in the Ferman Center for the Arts. The event is part of the University鈥檚 Honors Program Distinguished Speaker Series. A book signing and reception will follow.

Trethewey will read selections from her five collections of poetry and her newest publication,鈥�"The House of Being," 鈥痑 memoir that revisits her childhood as the daughter of a Black mother and a white father in the 1960s and 70s in Mississippi, and the geographic and cultural crossroads she witnessed and experienced.

Trethewey served two terms (2012-2014) as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States. Her 2006 collection of poems, "Native Guard," a reckoning of the racial legacy of the Deep South, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She also has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Beinecke Library at Yale. She serves now as the director of creative writing and the Board of Trustees professor of English鈥痑t Northwestern University.

鈥淭he distinguished speaker series features people awarded the highest and most visible accolades in their field, such as the Nobel, Tony, Emmy, Grammy and National Book Awards. Natasha Trethewey鈥檚 many honors certainly fit that description, and we are thrilled that she is this year's guest,鈥� said Honors co-chair Professor Kacy Tillman.

The event is free and open to the public. Faculty, staff and . . For more information about Trethewey, visit . For additional information about the event, contact the Honors Program at honors@ut.edu.