Quotes by : Natasha Trethewey

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to....

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense....

the wages of empire is myopia

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care....

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.....

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think....

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I....