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Category Archive: Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “On a very personal level, I…”

On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems ‘Native Guard.’ I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

October 27, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “I am interested in 18th century…”

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

September 24, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “My name is Natasha Trethewey, and…”

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

September 19, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “I know that my tendency is…”

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I’m trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in ‘Bellocq’s Ophelia’ my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it’s not linear, but it’s round in that way, and much of ‘Native Guard’ is like that.

August 22, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “I was always very aware of…”

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

August 11, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “I’ve been telling my students, ‘Imitate…”

I’ve been telling my students, ‘Imitate, imitate.’ And they say, ‘Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I’m not original? I want to be myself.’ And I always tell them, ‘Your self will shine through’… If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won’t be like anyone else.

August 6, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “Poetry’s a thing that belongs to…”

Poetry’s a thing that belongs to everyone.

August 1, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “It is a tremendous honor to…”

It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it’s the kind of thing that makes me feel like – even as it’s been bestowed upon me – I must continue to live up to what it means… Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

July 12, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “The entirety of ‘Bellocq’s Ophelia’ was…”

The entirety of ‘Bellocq’s Ophelia’ was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

June 3, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Natasha Trethewey Quote: “Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled…”

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way – people who don’t exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

February 27, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

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