United Kingdom poet laureate is appointed for life, and in the U.S.

Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Tretvey (Natasha Trethewey) on Thursday, June seven, has been appointed the new poet laureate of the United States , according to Agence France-Presse.The poet- laureate of the United States is the official poet of the U.S. Library of Congress .Poet Laureate is appointed director of the Library of Congress and a scholarship of $ thirty-five,zero per year.forty-six- year-old Tretvey became the nineteenth poet laureate .She will replace Philip Levine .Tretvey will begin its work as poet laureate in September two thousand and twelve .The duties of the poet laureate is an address to the lectures and public readings.The holder of this title also recommends that the new poets of the Library for inclusion of their work in their archives.A native of Mississippi, Natasha Tretvey was the second African-American poet who has received the official title of poet Library of Congress , says Reuters.Tretvey is the author of three collections of poetry .In two thousand and seven she received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry collection "Native Guard".Also, the collections came Tretvey "Bellocq's Ophelia" and "Domestic Work".The poet teaches English at Emory University in Atlanta.The title of poet laureate of the United States at different times, were awarded the Nobel Prize for literature , Joseph Brodsky (one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-one), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight and one thousand, nine hundred and seventy-nine , Robert Penn Warren and others.In the UK there is a similar title , but unlike the U.S. is that in the United Kingdom poet laureate is appointed for life, and in the U.S. - one to two years.