Natasha Trethewey. PHOTO/AP
Natasha Trethewey began writing poems after a personal tragedy.
While Trethewey was a college freshman, her mother was killed by a stepfather Tretheway had long feared.
"I started writing poems as a response to that great loss, much the way that people responded, for example, after 9/11," she told The Associated Press. "People who never had written poems or turned much to poetry turned to it at that moment because it seems like the only thing that can
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