Natasha Tretheway: “Enlightenment” Broadside Now Available
By Jane Friedman
September 13th, 2012
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Tonight, Nathasha Tretheway gives her inaugural reading as U.S. Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress. The Virginia Quarterly Review is proud to mark her appointment by issuing a signed, limited edition broadside of her poem “Enlightenment.”
For a donation of $75 to VQR, of which a portion is tax-deductible, one of the 200 signed and numbered broadsides will be provided, as supplies last. For a donation of $150 to VQR, of which a portion is tax-deductible, one of the twelve lettered broadsides will be provided, as supplies last. To make a donation, e-mail business@vqronline.org or call the VQR offices at (434) 924-3675.
The broadside was printed at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, Charlottesville, by Kevin McFadden, with an original woodcut by Josef Beery.
You can read Tretheway’s work in VQR’s online archives:
• Enlightenment, Spring 2012
• Prodigal II, Fall 2009
• Exegesis, Fall 2009
• Believer, Fall 2009
• Tower, Fall 2009
• Congregation, Fall 2009
• Benediction, Fall 2009
• Prodigal I, Fall 2009
• Kin, Fall 2009
• Watcher, Fall 2009
• Witness, Fall 2009
• The Gulf: A Meditation on the Mississippi Coast after Katrina, Summer 2008
• Pilgrimage, Summer 2005
• Scenes From a Documentary History of Mississippi, Summer 2005
• On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South, Spring 2005
• Incident, Spring 2004
Category: Poetry VQR
The Virginia Quarterly Review
September 18th, 2012 at 11:16 am
[...] honor of Natasha Trethewey‘s appointment as poet laureate of the United States, VQR has commissioned from the Virginia Arts of the Book Center (a sister program of the encyclopedia) the above [...]
October 31st, 2012 at 10:51 pm
[...] not only did we accomplish our most ambitious project to date in the Atlas, but we also printed a broadside for the Library of Congress and the new U.S. Poet Laureate, hosted Craig Pleasants who printed our [...]
December 10th, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Hi Jane, do you have a larger version of the image available please? Having difficulty reading the small text and when I click the image it displays it in the same size.
December 12th, 2012 at 11:31 am
You can read the full poem here:
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2012/spring/enlightenment-tretheway/