Pulitzer-winning American poet visits Seoul

Pulitzer-winning American poet Natasha Trethewey arrived in Korea Tuesday on her first visit here to hold poetry readings and lectures, Yonhap News reported citing the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.



The 43-year-old author, who will be in Seoul through Friday, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2007 for her work "Native Guard," which centered on black Civil War soldiers along the Mississippi coast.



Trethewey will give several lectures at prestigious Korean colleges, including Yonsei University, and also discuss her poetry at a forum organized by the American Studies Association of Korea and the Fulbright commission, the embassy said in a press release.



Born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, Trethewey is a professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, where she holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry.