Natasha Tretheway is the new poet laureate of the United States of America:

Despite her relative youth, Trethewey has logged accomplishments, notably receiving the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her collection "Native Guard." She is the author of two prior poetry collections, "Domestic Work," (2000) and "Bellocq’s Ophelia" (2002), and the 2010 nonfiction book, "Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast." Another collection of poetry, "Thrall," is set to be published later this year...she is the first African American poet laureate since Rita Dove, who served from 1993 through 1995.

As ever, the invaluable Poets.org has an author page for Tretheway featuring poems for you to read and recordings of Tretheway reading her own work. I like "Letter Home" a whole lot.