Tracy K. Smith Quotes
I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.
Citations
Smith, Tracy K. Interview. Guernica, 15 June 2015.
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Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.