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Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2014. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi. She is the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University.


On the Timeliness—and Timelessness—of Muriel Rukeyser’s Far-Reaching Poetry

Natasha Trethewey Considers the Essential Role of Poetry in Our Lives
June 3, 2021  By Natasha Trethewey
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How Eudora Welty’s Photography Captured My Grandmother’s History

Natasha Trethewey on Experiencing a Past Not Our Own
May 7, 2019  By Natasha Trethewey
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Reach: A Poem by Natasha Trethewey

From Her New Collection Monument: Poems New and Selected.
November 6, 2018  By Natasha Trethewey
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