Trethewey is the nation's first laureate to hail from the South since 1986, when Robert Penn Warren was named the first U.S. poet laureate by the Library of Congress. She is also Mississippi's top poet and will be the first person to serve simultaneously as poet laureate for a state and for the nation at large. Natasha's collection of poems
Anne Carson and Bianca Stone
Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is the first time she's making translation into a combined visual and textual experience. Sophokles' luminous and... (read more)
Ben Hickman
Ben Hickman argues that we must attend to Ashbery's radical conception of reading if we are to understand the originality of his writing. Hickman focuses on Ashbery's reading of English poets, including Andrew Marvell, John Donne, William Wordsworth... (read more)