Tracy K. Smith served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 2017-2019 and is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, including, most recently, Wade in the Water (Graywolf, 2018) and Life on Mars, ...

CHOW: Tracy K. Smith's collection of poetry, "Life On Mars," won a Pulitzer Prize. And I regularly send that collection, as well as Tracy's memoir, "Ordinary Light," to friends who are ...

5/5 Stars. Published in 2018, “Wade in the Water” is a book of poems by 2017 U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, which works to address racism, injustice and historical impacts of slavery in the modern ...

Tracy K. Smith is today's poet in residence at NPR's All Things Considered. She spent the day in the newsroom taking in the sights and sounds, and… ...

Tracy K. Smith is a librettist, translator and the author of five acclaimed poetry collections, including “Life on Mars”, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

“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 ...

‘Life on Mars’ Author Explores Humans’ Relationship With Universe Through Poetry "Life on Mars," Tracy K. Smith's third book, explores the cosmos through words.

Since her first book of poetry, “The Body’s Question,” was published in 2003, Tracy K. Smith has been a writer to watch. Her poems and prose are forceful, intelligent and musical, earning ...

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 ...

In her newest memoir “To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul,” Tracy K. Smith ’94 delves into the past through the lens of her family history with lyrical and moving language.