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
John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon Derived from the Modern Library’s esteemed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this new volume, extensively revised and updated by its editors, contains... (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)
Laura Kasischke
"Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down." The New York Times Book Review
"Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of... (read more)
Stephen Addiss
In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have... (read more)
Allison Hedge Coke
This volume testifies to the need to protect the remarkable ruins of the Indigenous North American city of Blood Run and the sacred remains she guards there in mounded tombs. The persona poems herein emanate its character embraced in architectural... (read more)
David Budbill
Familiar to listeners of National Public Radio, David Budbill is beloved by legions for straightforward poems dispatched from his hermitage on Judevine Mountain. Inspired by classical Chinese hermit poets, he follows tradition but cannot escape the... (read more)
Henry A. Nwanguma
It get's shorter, closer, and nearer,
The day freedom smiles like a brother,
The harder the world gets,
The fairer the fret,
It's only a sign
That we've got but a short while to dine
On this dining table of bondage.... (read more)
Congratulations to Natasha Trethewey, our 19th U.S. poet laureate!
