For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood” — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“The servant, still a child, cranes his neck, turns his face up toward all of them. He is dark as history, origin… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost.… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns” — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
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… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
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… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
