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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  Want , Best , Poetry , I Can


Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  Day , War , Marriage , Birthday


Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  People , Home , Feel , Language


From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  Always , Poetry , America , Seat


It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  Me , Years , Write , Finally


The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  Myself , People , Mother , Grief


It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  Me , Age , Challenge , Social Media


On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  Time , Research , Memories , Library


My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  Black , Father , Parents , Mother


I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

Author: Natasha Trethewey - American Poet
  Me , Poetry , Experience , Speak


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