Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/poet-visits-hurricane-ravaged-birthplace Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Born in Gulfport, Miss., poet Natasha Trethewey recently returned to the coast of Mississippi to witness the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the landmarks she elegized in her book "Native Guard." Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. RAY SUAREZ: Finally, another in our occasional series on poets and poetry. Tonight, Natasha Trethewey, a professor of writing at Emory University and author of three volumes of poetry. Her new collection is called "Native Guard." NATASHA TRETHEWEY, Poet: My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.