Natasha TretheweyI don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to fix a poem.373Reflection
Natasha TretheweyWhat is love?/ One name for it is knowledge. ✨ Natasha Trethewey (2012). Thrall: Poems, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt355Love
Natasha TretheweyI was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now comes this fine meditation… ▶313LifeReadingTime
Natasha TretheweyJesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to mourn. In Men We Reaped, Jesmyn unburies her d… ▶359DeathLifeLove
Natasha TretheweyYou can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. Theories of Time and Space ✨ Natasha Trethewey (2007). Nati… ▶339Time
Natasha TretheweyWhat's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it. ✨ Natasha Trethewey (2012). Thrall: Poems, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt221Life
Natasha TretheweyA man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision. ✨ Natasha Trethewey (2012). Thrall: Poems, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt207Reading
Natasha TretheweyThere are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ … ▶1510Politics