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Title

  • Natasha Trethewey: 2013 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2013-09-21.

Headings

  • -  Literature
  • -  Poetry

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Natasha Trethewey.
  • -  Recorded on 2013-09-21.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Teachers.
  • -  Natasha Trethewey was recently appointed to a second term as Poet Laureate by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. Trethewey is also Poet Laureate of her home state of Mississippi. She is a professor of English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta and the author of four poetry collections, including her newest, "Thrall" (2012). Her other collections are "Native Guard" (2006), winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; "Bellocq's Ophelia" (2002); and "Domestic Work" (2000). She is also the author of the nonfiction book "Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast." Trethewey has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021692205

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  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Natasha Trethewey:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-21, 2013. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692205/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2013) Natasha Trethewey:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-21. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692205/.

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Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Natasha Trethewey:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-21, 2013. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021692205/>.