AP Interview with Natasha Trethewey
Decatur Metro | November 21, 2012 | 10:17 amJack points to this AP interview with U.S. Poet Laureate and Decatur resident Natasha Trethewey featured on the AJC’s Access Atlanta site. Here’s a blurb to get you started…
Natasha Trethewey smashes stereotypes about poets. She’s not stuffy. Or shy. Or aloof.
As U.S. poet laureate, the 46-year-old describes herself as a “cheerleader” for the written word. She chooses the label deliberately, not only because she was head cheerleader at the University of Georgia in the late 1980s (Big hair! Big smile!), but also because, as a younger laureate, she wants to bring a sense of energy to the position.
“I want to ask ordinary people if poetry can mean something to them,” Trethewey told The Associated Press during an interview at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss.
Typo in subject line.
Do we really need to pile on DM’s lithp?
At least he’s consistent.
You mean conthithtent?
Oh, Junder. You are endearing.
Well that’s about the nicest thing anyone’s called me in a while!
Her name is one of those words that I just can’t see in my mind. I don’t know what that makes me, but every time I encounter it and I’m in a slight rush, I can hardly get beyond that first “T”.
Maybe I should write a poem about it.
Lyrics Guy ????
All over this town
Yes, a low wind may blow
And I can see through everybody’s clothes
With no reason
To hide these words, I feel
And no reason
To talk about the books I read
But still, I do
“Sister I’m a Poet”
-Morrissey
Oh, and dethpite the typos, thanks for the link. Now excuse me while I go make the little tree casserole for tomorrow!
Just remember to wait to put the crackers on until it’s about to go in the oven, or it’ll be soggy!
Emory Magazine also has piece on her: http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/issues/2012/autumn/features/trethewey.html
Garden and Gun (not my usual read but hey) had a nice profile on her as well.
Garden and Gun should be a usual read, if only for the chance to read Kessler on something besides food. There’s also a fun piece about the Seale, AL folk artist Butch Anthony in the new one. Everybody should get to a Doo Nanny at least once in their lives.
This is sorta extraordinary. From the Garden and Gun article…
“…the first Southerner to hold the post since Robert Penn Warren, the original honoree.”
Go Doggerels! (and take this bad pun with you).