During her first year as poet laureate of the United States, Tracy K. Smith launched ... process of writing the poem has led me to say. Kasischke’s poem moves through images of the heart as ...

Readers of Tracy K. Smith's third book of poetry, Life on Mars (Graywolf ... The latter is particularly strong, making use of images from science and science fiction to articulate human desire ...

The title poem of Tracy K. Smith’s new collection ... Her office at Princeton is neat, decorated with a few family photos—Smith and her husband, Raphael Allison, a poetry scholar who also ...

Tracy K. Smith on her new work ... That she would run and run with those images. Out to the ends of the cosmos. In to the heart of human joy and grief. Tracy Smith’s new collection is called ...

Consider, for instance, these lines from Robin Coste Lewis’s incredible poem “Plantation,” in ... For Lewis and others, including Tracy K. Smith, the current United States Poet Laureate ...

It’s the rare podcast conversation on The Ezra Klein Show where, as it’s happening, I’m making notes to go back and listen again so I can fully absorb what I heard. But this is that kind of ...

Tracy K. Smith reads from her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Life on Mars." Tracy K. Smith's poem is from her book "Life on Mars," which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry earlier this year.

The poet Toi Derricotte, a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, said, “The surfaces of a Tracy K. Smith poem are beautiful and serene, but underneath, there is always a sense of an ...