Duende
1. The earth is dry and they live wanting. Each with a small reservoir Of furious music heavy in the throat. They drag it out and with nails in their feet Coax the night into being. Brief believing. A skirt shimmering […]
Tracy K. Smith
The Nobodies
Los nadies: los hijos de nadie, los dueños de nada. Los nadies: los ningunos […]
Self-Portrait as the Letter Y
1. I waved a gun last night In a city like some ancient Los Angeles. It was dusk. There were two girls I wanted to make apologize, But the gun was uselessly heavy. They looked sideways at each other And tried to flatter me. I was angry. I wanted to cry. I wanted to […]
Tracy K. Smith Q&A with advice to young writers
Tracy K. Smith offers some advice to young writers.
Tracy K. Smith Q&A on the pleasure and the pain of writing
Tracy K. Smith, author of The Body’s Question, on the pleasure and the pain of writing
Tracy K. Smith Q&A on the genesis of The Nobodies
Tracy K. Smith, author of The Body’s Question, on the genesis of The Nobodies
Tracy K. Smith Q&A on becoming a poet
Tracy K. Smith, 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winner, talks about how she become a poet.
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is the author of three collections of poetry: Life on Mars (Graywolf Press, 2011), winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Duende (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and The Body’s Question (Graywolf, 2003), winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. […]