While searching online for the Cornish in America, the name Natasha Trethewey appeared. ‘Trethewey’ being a distinct Cornish surname, and her Cornish heritage.
Natasha, a former two-time Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, is the daughter of Eric Trethewey, also a poet and the descendant of Cornish migrants, was born in Nova Scotia later moving to Kentuchy where he met Gwendolyn Turnbough. They decided to marry in 1965, and having to elope Cincinnati, where interracial marriage was legal.
When Natasha began her role as Poet Laureate in 2012, Cornwall Council officer Bert Biscoe personally delivered an inscribed copy of the Collected Poems by the Cornish poet, Charles Causley.
Natasha returned to her roots in March 2017 when she visited the Duchy to perform a public lecture at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus. She also gave a reading of her work at Falmouth Art Gallery.
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