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Natasha Trethewey Reads "Letter to Inmate #271847"

“This is how the past interrupts our lives, all of it entering the same doorway…” In this clip from PBS’s Articulate, former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey reads her poem “Letter to Inmate #271847.” An interview by Joshunda Sanders with Trethewey about her new book, Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir (Ecco, 2020), is featured in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Natasha Trethewey
Letter to Inmate #271847
PBS
Articulate
July/August 2020
United States Poet Laureate

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