{"id":31887,"date":"2013-06-23T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31887"},"modified":"2013-06-23T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T15:50:08","slug":"library-of-congress-appoints-natasha-trethewey-to-second-term-as-u-s-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31887","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey To Second Term as U.S. Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Library of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey To Second Term as U.S. Poet Laureate<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

News from the Library of Congress<\/a>
\nThe Library of Congress<\/a>
\nWashington, D.C.
\n2013-06-10<\/p>\n

Trethewey Will Launch Project as Part of the PBS NewsHour Poetry Series<\/em><\/p>\n

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington<\/a> has appointed Natasha Trethewey<\/a> to serve a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The Library and the country are fortunate Natasha Trethewey will continue her work as Poet Laureate,” said Billington. “Natasha\u2019s first term was a resounding success, and we could not be more thrilled with her plans for the coming year.”<\/p>\n

Trethewey\u2019s second term will begin in September. She will follow previous multiyear laureates\u2014such as Kay Ryan, Ted Kooser, and Billy Collins\u2014and undertake a signature project: a regular feature on the PBS NewsHour Poetry Series<\/a>. Trethewey will join NewsHour Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown for a series of on-location reports in various cities across the United States to explore several large societal issues, through a focused lens offered by poetry and her own coming-to-the-art.<\/p>\n

The Poetry Series, featured on the PBS NewsHour, engages a broad audience through thoughtful, in-depth reports on contemporary poets and poetry. Online, the NewsHour features weekly poems on its Art Beat blog as well as on a special page dedicated to poetry.<\/p>\n

Ms. Trethewey\u2019s first term as the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry was noteworthy for her “Office Hours,” during which she met with the general public in the Library\u2019s Poetry Room\u2014harkening back to a tradition established by her predecessors in the post from 1937 to 1986. For her second year, Trethewey will move beyond the capital to seek out the many ways poetry lives in communities across the country and addresses issues and concerns of Americans.<\/p>\n

In that pursuit, she will draw on her own life experiences as a guide\u2014visiting places she feels a personal connection to, such as a domestic violence center, an inner-city school, a prison or juvenile detention center, a nursing home, or places that have suffered natural or man-made disasters. The specific locations will be determined closer to the start of the Poet Laureate\u2019s second term. In her travels to cities and towns for the series, Trethewey also intends to hold “Office Hours on the Road”\u2014meeting with members of the general public as she did in the Library…<\/p>\n

Read the entire news release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Library of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey To Second Term as U.S. Poet Laureate News from the Library of Congress The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2013-06-10 Trethewey Will Launch Project as Part of the PBS NewsHour Poetry Series Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has appointed Natasha Trethewey to serve a second term as U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[15009,5584,1133,15010,15011],"class_list":["post-31887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-james-h-billington","tag-library-of-congress","tag-natasha-trethewey","tag-pbs-newshour-poetry-series","tag-the-library-of-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}