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By The River

Natasha Trethewey

By The River presents in-depth interviews with South Carolina authors and poets.

Natasha Trethewey

By the River Season Four Episode 2 | 26m 46s | CC

Holly Jackson is by the river with the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Natasha Trethewey to discuss her book Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir. Holly learns about the courage that it takes to tell the story of Trethewey’s mother’s death and how poetry helps her deal with it.

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