Poets & Writers Theater
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“One of the women greeted me. / I love you, she said. She didn’t / Know me, but I believed her, / And a terrible new ache / Rolled over in my chest,” reads Tracy K. Smith from her poem “Wade in the Water” in this 2018 Library of Congress event with Ron Charles, book critic of the Washington Post. Smith is featured in a profile by Renée H. Shea in the March/April 2015 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Tracy K. Smith | Wade in the Water | Library of Congress | technology | 2018 | March/April 2015 -
For PBS NewsHour, U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith recommends recent poetry titles, including Look (Graywolf Press, 2016) by Solmaz Sharif, who was featured in “Shadows of Words: Our Twelfth Annual Look at Debut Poets” in Poets & Writers Magazine, and Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf Press, 2017) by Erika L. Sanchez, who was profiled in “First” by Rigoberto González in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Tracy K. Smith | Wade in the Water | Graywolf Press | 2018 | Look | Solmaz Sharif | Lessons on Expulsion | Erika L. Sánchez | PBS NewsHour | Debut Poets 2016 | recommendations -
“Is this love the trouble you promised?” Tracy K. Smith, who has been named the twenty-second poet laureate of the United States, reads her poem “Wade in the Water,” which will be published in a poetry collection in 2018.
Tags: Poetry | Tracy K. Smith | United States Poet Laureate | Wade in the Water | PBS NewsHour | 2017
