Tracy K. Smith
1972
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: American English
educated at: Harvard University, Columbia University, Columbia University School of the Arts, Fairfield High School
award received: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, United States Poet Laureate, Academy of American Poets Fellowship
student of: Lucie Brock-Broido
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015. In April 2018, she was nominated for a second term as United States Poet Laureate by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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