The Library of Congress will announce on Monday thatNatasha Trethewey is to be appointed to a second one-year term as the United States poet laureate. In her second year Ms. Trethewey will travel the country for a series of reports exploring societal issues through poetry that are to appear on “The PBS NewsHour.” 

Ms. Trethewey is a professor of English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. She is in the middle of a term as the poet laureate of Mississippi (where she is from), and is writing a memoir, which is due out next year.