National Poetry Month and Natasha Trethewey introduction

April is National Poetry Month! Listen to current Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, Samuel Menash, the 2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Sharon Olds, as well as Louis Utermeyer, Dylan Thomas, Robert Pinsky, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore —and other anapestic treats.

Natasha Trethewey is the first African American to hold the title of Poet Laureate since Rita Dove in 1993. She’s also the first Southerner since Robert Penn Warren — one of the first Laureates. Listen now to Trethewey from The Takeaway, July 6, 2012.