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Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, editor, translator and librettist. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017-2019. Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Such Color: New and Selected Poems; Wade in the Water, which was awarded the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; Life on Mars, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende, winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and The Body’s Question, which received the 2003 Cave Canem Prize. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in nonfiction. She is the co-translator (with Changtai Bi) of My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei, which was a finalist for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize.


A New Poem by Tracy K. Smith

Celebrating This Year's PEN World Voices Festival
May 13, 2022  By Tracy K. Smith
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“Some Trees”

A Poem by Tracy K. Smith
October 18, 2021  By Tracy K. Smith
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Tracy K. Smith on Translating
the World of Yi Lei

"She was and remains a revolutionary voice"
November 11, 2020  By Tracy K. Smith
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How Audre Lorde’s Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics

Tracy K. Smith on The Cancer Journals
October 14, 2020  By Tracy K. Smith
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Dear Black America:
A Letter From Tracy K. Smith

"We revel in the depth and the flair and the belief and the secrecy of Blackness."
July 2, 2020  By Tracy K. Smith
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What Memoir Can Do That Poetry Can’t

Tracy K. Smith on finding memories buried in words
April 16, 2015  By Tracy K. Smith
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