The former poet laureate examines our country’s oldest wounds — and ongoing racism — through the lens of her own family’s experience. By Shane McCrae When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

CWRU's Common Reading selection for 2021-2022 is Tracy K. Smith's Wade in the Water. The Writing Program offers the following resources for using this text in First Seminars and other writing courses.

Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former US Poet Laureate will read and discuss her work with Nandi Comer, Michigan’s Poet Laureate. The Bauder Lecture is the main event of the Contemporary ...

Poet Tracy K. Smith didn’t envision herself writing two published memoirs. The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard alum and professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate published her first one, “Ordinary ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith argues that poetry is a neglected and needed balm in her new book, "Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times." When Tracy K. Smith was named U.S. Poet Laureate in ...

In her new memoir ‘To Free the Captives,’ the former poet laureate excavates the past to find a new definition of being free. Just over a year ago, Tracy K. Smith was still searching for the words to ...

Former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith shares a deeply personal portrait of her family, America’s history and her path to sobriety in her new memoir, “To Free the Captives.” Tracy K. Smith is known for ...

“I have a lot of books on near-death experiences, psychic phenomena and past-life regression on my shelves,” says the two-time poet laureate, whose new book is the memoir “To Free the Captives.” ...

Tracy K. Smith deserves a round of applause, because she has just been named the new poet laureate, which the Library of Congress defines as a role that "seeks to raise the national consciousness to a ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Tracy K. Smith is an Author with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2015 Interview as a Professor for Creative Writing in the Princeton ...

Tracy K. Smith, the current U.S. poet laureate, gave a free reading and book-signing on Saturday, Feb. 17, in Emerson Concert Hall of Emory’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Smith is the author ...