Trethewey to take second term as Poet Laureate

• JOEFF DAVIS
• Natasha Trethewey

Emory University has announced that Natasha Trethewey wiil be appointed to a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate. A poet and memoirist whose 2006 collection, Native Guard, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, Trethewey also serves as Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of their Creative Writing Program. Since being appointed to the position last year, Trethewey has split her time between Atlanta and Washington D.C., where the Library of Congress holds a office for the laureate.

The second year appointment will focus on a collaboration with the PBS Newshour Poetry Series. According to the announcement, Trethewey “will join NewsHour Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown for a series of on-location reports in various cities across the United States to explore several large societal issues, through a focused lens offered by poetry and her own coming-to-the-art.”

For more on Trethewey, take a minute to revisit Max Blau’s profile from our Literary Atlanta issue.