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- Currently, Smith is a professor at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, a core faculty member in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada University, and a resident in VONA and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program.
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Feb 9, 2015 · Capitol Hill Lit Report: Terrance Hayes on Liquid Modernity. Next week, Patricia Smith will come to the Library of Congress as the 13th Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize in Poetry recipient.
Patricia Smith was born in 1955 in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University. Smith is married to Bruce DeSilva , journalist and Edgar Award -winning author.
Sep 13, 2021 · Patricia Smith is that mecca, that metropolis, that neon city shining atop a jet-black hill. We go to the city because of a hunger for infinite possibilities. I read, learn from, and shout her poems for the same reason.
ABOUT. PATRICIA SMITH is the 2021 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the Poetry Foundation, and a 2022 inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including Unshuttered (Feb 2023); Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the ...
Smith is a distinguished professor of English for the City University of New York and a lecturer in creative writing at Princeton University. Her next poetry book, upcoming in 2022, will combine dramatic monologues with 19th century photos of African Americans from her extensive private collection.
Mar 13, 2023 · Patricia Smith. In Unshuttered, the narratives are attached to the images—but, then again, they’re not. There is absolutely no way I could say “Here’s exactly what this person sounded like, and here’s exactly what they would say.”
Smith’s personas often reside in dangerous or challenging circumstances: poor urban neighborhoods, nightclubs, street corners, late-night taxi cabs. She’s written poetry through the persona of Medusa, a skinhead, Little Richard, and Emmett Till, to name just a few.
