Chet’la Sebree

Chet’la Sebree is the author of Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award, and Mistress, winner of the 2018 New Issues Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She is the director of the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts and an assistant professor at Bucknell University.

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Interview Lit World

Rita Dove: “We aren’t lost”

By Rita Dove and Chet’la Sebree August 11, 2021

The former US Poet Laureate’s new collection leans into uncertainty, anger, and the limits of the body.

Interview Lit World

Natasha Trethewey: Finding Her Calling in a Wound That Never Heals

By Chet’la Sebree January 9, 2019

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet on her recently released collection, the connections between personal and historical violence, and how she received her calling.

Audio Poetry

Je Suis Sally

Poetry by Chet’la Sebree September 27, 2017

"I am black wench, / wench Sally, African Venus, Sarah Hemings"