[Yale-readings] February 12: Pulitzer Winner Tracy K. Smith

[Kuhl, Nancy]

The English Department is excited to host the Schlesinger Visiting Writer, Tracy K. Smith on Wednesday, February 12, 2014, at 4:30pm in LC 317
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Tracy K. Smith is the author of three books of poetry. Her most recent collection, Life on Mars (Graywolf, 2011), won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. The collection draws on sources as disparate as Arthur C. Clarke and David Bowie, and is in part an elegiac tribute to her late father, an engineer who worked on the Hubble Telescope. Duende (2007) won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and an Essence Literary Award. The Body's Question (2003) was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award in 2004 and a Whiting Award in 2005.

McKenzie Granata
Administrative Assistant
Department of English
Yale University
203-432-8188

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