Poetry Reading: Tracy K. Smith
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| Dates: | Sunday, July 12, 2026 - Sunday, July 12, 2026 |
| Hours: | 3:00 PM |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Outdoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Arts & Culture |
This reading is presented in partnership with the New England Poetry Club.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 2017-19, during which time she spearheaded American Conversations: Celebrating Poetry in Rural Communities with the Library of Congress, created the American Public Media podcast The Slowdown, and edited the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time.
Smith is the author of five poetry collections: Such Color: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2022 New England Book Award; 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; and co-editor (with John Freeman) of There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis.
Her memoir-manifesto, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, was a Time magazine and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times is a nonfiction celebration of poetry as a source of courage and emotional fortitude amidst the many upheavals of the 21st Century.
She is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
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