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Congratulations to Georgia’s Own Natasha Trethewey!
Natasha Trethewey, a professor of English at Emory University, has been named the U.S. Poet Laureate for 2012-13. Trethewey's works of poetry include Domestic Work (2000), Bellocq's Ophelia (2002), and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard…