Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smithis an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2011 collection, Life on Mars. About this collection, Joel Brouwer wrote in 2011: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition. ... As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1972
CountryUnited States of America
Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.
Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy at the feats of beauty and healing that language is capable of bringing into being.
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.