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2 giorni fa · Tracy K. Smith’s latest essay collection, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, makes the case for optimism. Conjuring up histories of Black resilience—through national and familial archives, searingly personal anecdotes, and ancestral wisdom—the former American Poet Laureate reminds us: History is not something to run from. No.
2 giorni fa · Meditation helped her shift out of “that self-centered space,” she said, and produce a poem called “Vision,” published last month in The New Yorker. Moving back and forth across history and geography, it traces the dark edges our past and present moment. “History is heavy,” Smith said afterward. “But it’s always with us.”.
23 ore fa · Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry 2012, reminds us: "Poetry is not a cure. It is an invitation to beauty." Poetry doesn’t seek to solve or heal all our woes; rather, it invites us to witness and appreciate the beauty in the world, even amidst pain and struggle.
4 giorni fa · Julia Alvarez, Kai Bird, Anthony Doerr, David Grann, Hua Hsu, Patrick Radden Keefe, Anne Lamott, Tommy Orange, Tracy K. Smith, Hampton Sides, John Vaillant, Jesmyn Ward, and Javier Zamora are among the featured authors<br/><br/>The Santa Fe International Literary Festival will take place May 17–19, 2024, bringing together world-renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers to celebrate ...
1 giorno fa · 77 likes, 3 comments - tracyksmithpoet on May 22, 2024: "W.H. Auden's "Here War Is Simple," one of his Sonnets from China.".
2 giorni fa · For the moan wrung from all throats and all men all seasons on earth. By which I mean: Divine was the grief. The whole unceasing universe gathered to watch and ache as the earth whirred and spun in its place, as the families packed up, the armies dispersed, the rivers swole and overflowed their banks. (Tracy K. Smith)
3 giorni fa · The installation is titled TRAVELS FAR, after a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith (you can read the poem below and see it at the stations, translated in multiple languages).
