The Library of Congress has announced that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey. She is the first Southerner to hold the title since the original laureate, Robert Penn Warren, and the first black laureate since Rita Dove in 1993.
“Ms. Trethewey’s great theme is memory, and in particular the way private recollection and public history sometimes intersect but more often diverge.”
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