Pencil This In: Sonia Sotomayor & U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey To Read

By Amy Cavanaugh in Arts & Entertainment on Jan 26, 2013 8:00PM

• On Wednesday, January 30, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visits the Harold Washington Library at 6 p.m. to read from her memoir, My Beloved World.

The event will be held in the Winter Garden on the 9th floor of the library, which holds 500 people. Overflow seating is also available. Seating starts at 4:30 p.m. and free tickets will be distributed starting at 4 p.m. She will sign books after the event.

• Current U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reads at the Poetry Foundation on Tuesday, February 5 at 7 p.m. Trethewey, the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and one of the youngest to hold the post, has published several books of verse and has a memoir coming out this year.

Librarian of Congress James Billington has said that Trethewey’s poems “dig beneath the surface of history—personal and communal, from childhood or from a century ago—to explore the human struggles we all face.” This event is free and doors open 30 minutes before the program.