U.S. Poet Laureate Gets Second Term

The Library of Congress announced Monday that the U.S. poet laureate, Natasha Trethewey, has been appointed to a second one-year term.

Trethewey celebrated the end of her first term with a reading at the Library of Congress, which she compared to a Southern revivalist church service. "What do they see when they come inside?" she asked her native Mississippi's Clarion Ledger. "A glorious celebration and somebody giving their testimony about why they came to the church or to God... I wanted to give a poetry testimonial. I wanted to say, 'This is why it means something to me. This is what changed my life.'"