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Recommendations From Tracy K. Smith

New poet laureate Tracy K. Smith recommends the poetry you need to read

New poet laureate Tracy K. Smith recommends the poetry you need to read

For PBS NewsHour, U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith recommends recent poetry titles, including Look (Graywolf Press, 2016) by Solmaz Sharif, who was featured in “Shadows of Words: Our Twelfth Annual Look at Debut Poets” in Poets & Writers Magazine, and Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf Press, 2017) by Erika L. Sanchez, who was profiled in “First” by Rigoberto González in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Poets & Writers Theater

Recommendations From Tracy K. Smith

New poet laureate Tracy K. Smith recommends the poetry you need to read

New poet laureate Tracy K. Smith recommends the poetry you need to read