Natasha Trethewey

• WASHINGTON -- Natasha Trethewey began writing poems after a personal tragedy. While Trethewey was a college freshman, her mother was killed by a stepfather Tretheway had long feared.
(Huffington Post)
• WASHINGTON (AP) – A Pulitzer Prize winner is the nations first poet laureate to hail from the South since the initial one —Robert Penn Warren— was named by the Library of Congress in 1986.
(USA Today)
• WASHINGTON - A Pulitzer Prize winner is the nations first poet laureate to hail from the South since the initial one — Robert Penn Warren — was named by the Library of Congress in 1986.
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• The Library of Congress is to announce Thursday that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. Ms.
(New York Times)
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