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Book Review: ‘To Free the Captives,’ by Tracy K. Smith - The New York Times
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 ...
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Tracy K. Smith conjures her family’s ghosts in ‘To Free the Captives’ - The Washington Post
In Tracy K. Smith’s new book of interlinked essays, “To Free the Captives,” she imagines her dead parents returning as surprisingly no-nonsense specters. They have no grand messages to ...
The New Yorker2y
As Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith Hit the Road - The New Yorker
On the Political Scene podcast, the former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith talks to the New Yorker’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, about her work during the Trump era.
The Harvard Crimson1y
Harvard Authors Profile: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer, Tracy K. Smith ’94 on Language, Perspective, and History | Arts - Arts | The Harvard Crimson
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.