Smith served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States, during which time she traveled across America, hosting poetry readings and conversations in rural communities. In 2021 she edited, with John Freeman, the prose anthology There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, and was guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2021. In 2020 Smith and Changtai Bi co-translated Chinese poet Yi Lei’s book of poetry My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree. The book was a finalist for the National Book Award. In her memoir, Ordinary Light, Smith explores her own experience of race, religion, and the death of her mother shortly after Smith graduated from Harvard. Her most recent book of poetry is Such Color: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2021). Smith’s fourth book of poems, Wade in the Water, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Duende, Smith’s second book, received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Smith’s debut collection, The Body’s Question, was selected by Kevin Young as winner of the Cave Canem Prize for the best first book by an African American poet. Smith received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her third book of poems, Life on Mars. A MacDowell fellow, Amezcua's poems and translations are published in New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and others. She is the Associate Director of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and serves on the faculty of Randolph College's MFA program. For questions about accessibility services and the venue, please email or call 61.Įloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. She is the author of Fighting Is Like a Wife (Coffee House Press, 2022), and From the Inside Quietly (2018), inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program. The Edelstein-Keller Endowment presents poets Eloisa Amezcua and Tracy K.

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