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Title

  • Tracy K. Smith: National Book Festival 2020

Summary

  • Tracy K. Smith served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019 and is now chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. A Pulitzer Prize winner for her 2011 collection, "Life on Mars," she here reads "The United States Welcomes You" from her latest collection of poetry, "Wade in the Water: Poems" (Graywolf). Her recent anthology is "American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time" (Graywolf).

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2020-09-26.

Headings

  • -  2020 National Book Festival: Hearing Black Voices

Notes

  • -  Group name: 2020 National Book Festival: Poetry & Prose. 11
  • -  Tracy K. Smith.
  • -  Recorded on 2020-09-26.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697117

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  • video
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  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Tracy K. Smith: National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-26, 2020. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697117/>.