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
Claudia Ann Pate
Within these pages you will find poetic expressions of some of life's trials, triumphs and treasures, written for the purpose of inspiring, motivating and encouraging. It is my prayer that these expressions will bless you as they have me; to take joy in... (read more)
Dante Alighieri
Paradiso is a first person narration of Dante's travels through Hell, but at a deeper level it represents allegorically the soul's journey towards God. At this deeper level, Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy. A powerful work of... (read more)
Mario Benedetti
In Inventario II, Mario Benedetti delves deeper into themes already present in Inventario I. This volume gathers poems published between 1986 and 1991. Written with the sharpness and simplicity that characterizes Benedetti's works, these poems are also... (read more)
Steven D. Carter
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These... (read more)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his... (read more)
William Cowper
This study of William Cowper spans his early life and writings to his last years. It includes chapters on his moral satires and light verse as well as on "The Task" and the Homer translations. It also contains a selection of his poetic work.... (read more)
Waldman
The Beat movement exploded into American culture in the early 1950s with the force of prophecy. Not just another literary school, it was an artistic and social revolution. William S. Burroughs proclaimed that the Beat writers were “real architects... (read more)
Congratulations to Natasha Trethewey, our 19th U.S. poet laureate!
