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
David Biespiel
The formally nuanced and wise epistolary poems in David Biespiel's new collection are grounded in friendship, camaraderie, and the vulnerability and boldness that defines America. Roving from the old Confederacy of Biespiel's native South to Portland... (read more)
Matsuo Basho
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master. Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural... (read more)
Marc-lee Tierney
Here I am, all soft and covered for your enjoyment. I could not wish to be anything else than what I am for you today, an array of emotional release. I have been years in the making, each poem carrying the weight of life's pitfalls and triumphs. I have... (read more)
Jacques L. Condor
Songs, stories, legends and chants of the Eskimo people of the Arctic Rim and Alaska (the Yupik, Inuit, Inupiat, Chukchi, Inuvialiut, Loucheux, Denendeh and other Northern First Nations) are the material from which the word-sketches of Raven's Children... (read more)
Dennis Odriscoll
“One of the best-read men in the Western world” is how Poetry Review describes Irish poet-critic Dennis O’Driscoll. Quote Poet Unquote, his compilation of contemporary quotations on all things poetry-related, proves that judgment spot... (read more)
Sarah Cortez
This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil of Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers’ nets of the Gulf Coast, near Matagorda. Three generations of Hispanic families are viewed through the faith-filled lens of... (read more)
Gerald Dawe
From the domestic upheavals of the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence, to the thwarted idealism of the Spanish Civil War and the unrelenting casualties of two World Wars. Ireland was embroiled in a brutal succession of conflicts in the first half of... (read more)
Congratulations to Natasha Trethewey, our 19th U.S. poet laureate!
