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Natasha Trethewey, just named as U.S. poet laureate, has the task of raising the national passion for poetry. She reads her poem “Monument”.
Natasha Trethewey is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. Trethewey, a professor of English at Emory University, first read her poem “Monument” on Living on Earth in 2010. We present her poem and also hear about what inspires her to write verse.