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Film, Video Tracy K. Smith: National Book Festival 2020

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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).

Event Date

  • September 26, 2020

Running Time

  • 4 minutes 21 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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