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Natasha Trethewey

American poet and teacher
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Born:
April 26, 1966, Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S. (age 58)
Title / Office:
poet laureate (2012-2014)
Awards And Honors:
Pulitzer Prize

Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966, Gulfport, Mississippi, U.S.) is an American poet and teacher who served as poet laureate consultant in poetry (2012–14). Her subjects were chiefly history (both her family’s and that of the American South), race, and memory. Trethewey was born in the Deep South to an African American mother and a white father on the centennial of Confederate Memorial Day. Interracial marriage was still against the law in Mississippi when she was born. Her mother, a social worker, and her father, a Canadian poet and teacher, divorced when she was six. Her mother married again and ...(100 of 378 words)

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