Natasha Trethewey
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Phillip B. Williams
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Phillip B. Williams about his new book Thief in the Interior, form in poetry, and balancing editing work with one’s own.
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The State of American Poetry
If you liked David Biepsiel’s State of American Poetry address, here’s a nice counterpart by Natasha Trethewey at the Virginia Quarterly Review. “Despair about the place of poetry in American culture is nothing new,” she begins, and goes on to…
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Natasha Trethewey Gulfing!
Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey is flexing her foreign diplomacy muscles in the Persian Gulf for National Poetry Month. On April 24, Trethewey will be participating in a public interview at the Abu Dhabi International Bookfair, to kick off the massive list of…
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New Poet Laureate
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.…
