US Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway visits Detroit with PBS

Students from the Detroit PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab joined the team from Washington when they visited Detroit with US Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway. The students helped correspondent Jeff Brown and the PBS crew and had a moment to interview Natasha on their own.

Here is the link to the report that ran on the PBS NewsHour and additional online coverage. Both include footage shot by the student journalists:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec13/poetry_10-23.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2013/10/how-teen-poets-see-a-bankrupt-us-city.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2013/10/poets-notebook-insideout-in-detroit.html