Newest #PoetLaureate for the #USA is Tracy K. Smith

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[photo credit, from the article (link below): James Estrin/The New York Times]

USA’s Library of Congress has announced Tracy K. Smith as its newest national treasure, the country’s “poet laureate consultant in poetry,” the 22nd individual to hold that position.

A Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet (for her 2011 science-fiction-themed collection, Life on Mars, Smith, 45, who holds a BA from Harvard University and an M.F.A. (Master’s in Fine Arts) from Columbia, is the Director of the creative writing program at Princeton University.

Mazel Tov!

Here is a great article about her life, current projects and past creative work:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/books/tracy-k-smith-is-the-new-poet-laureate.html

Read and listen to some of her poetry and read more about her/all her writing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLIH6ewfplA

and

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/life-on-mars-by-tracy-k-smith-book-review.html

and

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/55522

and

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/tracy-k-smith

and

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/wade-in-the-water