"Artemis 2024"

Artemis Journal Book Launch Featuring Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey

The journal’s theme is Illuminating the Darkness and addresses the challenges facing artists and writers today.

Natasha’s poem “Enlightenment” is the featured poem in this year’s journal. She wrote the poem after visiting Monticello, Virginia, with her poet father, Eric Trethewey, to learn more about the complicated and revered President Thomas Jefferson.

About Natasha Trethewey:
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19^th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry and the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

About Artemis Journal:
Now in its 47th year of showcasing artists and writers of the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond, Artemis Journal highlights the creative voices who uphold the values of the Greek lunar goddess for which the journal was named. As the archetype of the mother goddess, Artemis was the protector of wild animals, the wilderness, young women, and childbirth. She was known as a carrier of light.