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Poetry for Black History Month: Natasha Trethewey

This is the first in a series of Poetry Thursday episodes that I will be doing for Black History Month. Today's episode is on the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, Natasha Trethewey.

Works Cited:

Trethewey, Natasha. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir. Ecco/Harper Collins, 2020.

Trethewey, Natasha. "Domestic Work, 1937." Domestic Work. Graywolf Press, 1999.

Trethewey, Natasha. "Quotidian." in Hannah-Jones, Nicole. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. One World, 2019.

Trethewey, Natasha. "Duty." Monument: Poems New and Selected. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Trethewey, Natasha. "Miscegenation." Native Guard: Poems.Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Trethewey, Natasha. "Pilgrimage." Native Guard: Poems.Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Trethewey, Natasha. "Myth." Native Guard: Poems.Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Trethewey, Natasha. "Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath." Poem-A-Day. Academy of American Poets, October 25, 2016.

Booktubers Mentioned:
Debs @RaynorReadsStuff
Margaret @MargaretPinard

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