Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey encourages education, self-creation to fight ignorance
“She will do whatever she wants.”
These words, spoken by Natasha Trethewey’s mother to her abusive stepfather decades before Trethewey became a Pulitzer Prize-winner and U.S. Poet Laureate, were a turning point, of sorts, in her trajectory to become a writer who would turn pain into poetry.