WASHINGTON - Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey was named US poet laureate, an annual honor aimed at promoting poetry among the American public.
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The nomination by the US Library in Congress makes the 46-year-old English and creative writing professor at Atlanta’s Emory University the 19th poet to be picked for the post.
Her predecessors include fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Penn Warren and Joseph Brodsky, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
