The Decatur Minute

Mayor Patti Garrett

Mayor Patti Garrett will deliver her first State of the City Address at the Decatur Business Association (DBA) Meeting on Tuesday, January 26 at the Courtyard by Marriott Decatur Conference Center.  Reception and networking begin at 5:15 and the program will start at 6 p.m.  The community is invited to attend.

Natasha Trethewey

Mayor Garrett has some special surprises in store including a guest appearance by Decatur resident and 2012 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey who will close out the program by reading her poem Meditation At Decatur Square.  Natasha won a Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 2007 and she is Professor at Emory University.  She debuted Meditation At Decatur Square at the Decatur Book Festival last year.  Mayor Garrett said “it is a distinct honor to have Natasha come and read it again at the close of my first State of the City Address.”