{"id":28076,"date":"2024-07-30T14:45:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/%poi_type%\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:05:48","slug":"mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey","status":"publish","type":"poi","link":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Writers Trail &#8211; Natasha Trethewey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gulfport native, Natasha Trethewey, is a two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, Mississippi Poet Laureate, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, Trethewey&#8217;s poems elegize, document, and provide testaments of personal and public histories that have been forgotten, ignored, or erased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulfport native, Natasha Trethewey, is a two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, Mississippi Poet Laureate, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, Trethewey&#8217;s poems elegize, document, and provide testaments of personal and public histories that [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":28056,"template":"","poi_type":[53,286,104,228],"class_list":["post-28076","poi","type-poi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","poi_type-arts-culture","poi_type-cultural-trails","poi_type-literature","poi_type-writers-trail"],"acf":{"details":[{"acf_fc_layout":"address_group","street_address":"1070 23rd Avenue","city":"Gulfport","zip":"39501"}],"search_image":false,"gallery":false,"location":{"address":"1070 23rd Ave, Gulfport, MS 39501, Gulfport","lat":"30.364273","lng":"-89.090235"},"region":"2","featured":false,"hide_hero":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mississippi Writers Trail - Natasha Trethewey - Visit Mississippi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mississippi Writers Trail - Natasha Trethewey - Visit Mississippi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gulfport native, Natasha Trethewey, is a two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, Mississippi Poet Laureate, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, Trethewey&#8217;s poems elegize, document, and provide testaments of personal and public histories that [\u2026]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Visit Mississippi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-19T16:05:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MSWritersTrail.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mississippi Writers Trail - Natasha Trethewey - Visit Mississippi","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mississippi Writers Trail - Natasha Trethewey - Visit Mississippi","og_description":"Gulfport native, Natasha Trethewey, is a two-term U.S. Poet Laureate, Mississippi Poet Laureate, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, Trethewey&#8217;s poems elegize, document, and provide testaments of personal and public histories that [\u2026]","og_url":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/","og_site_name":"Visit Mississippi","article_modified_time":"2025-08-19T16:05:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":1000,"url":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MSWritersTrail.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/","url":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/","name":"Mississippi Writers Trail - Natasha Trethewey - Visit Mississippi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MSWritersTrail.jpg","datePublished":"2024-07-30T19:45:37+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-19T16:05:48+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MSWritersTrail.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MSWritersTrail.jpg","width":1600,"height":1000},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/mississippi-writers-trail-natasha-trethewey\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"POIs","item":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Arts &amp; Culture","item":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Mississippi Writers Trail &#8211; Natasha Trethewey"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/","name":"Visit Mississippi","description":"The State for Wanderers","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/#organization","name":"Visit Mississippi","url":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/visitmslogo-dark.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/visitmslogo-dark.png","width":275,"height":111,"caption":"Visit Mississippi"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"featured_img":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MSWritersTrail.jpg","coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/author\/mwb\/","display_name":"Knol Aust"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 10 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 30, 2024","modified":"Updated on August 19, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 30, 2024 2:45 pm","modified":"Updated on August 19, 2025 11:05 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"poi_type":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/arts-culture\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Arts &amp; Culture<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/cultural-trails\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Cultural Trails<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/literature\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Literature<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/things-to-do\/writers-trail\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Writers Trail<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Arts &amp; Culture<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Cultural Trails<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Literature<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Writers Trail<\/span>"],"slug":"poi_type","name":"POI Types"}},"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/28076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poi"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/28076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"poi_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitmississippi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi_type?post=28076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}