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Tracy K. Smith
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Tracy K. Smith

poet, writer, librettist, editor, translator

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1972

Tracy K. Smith 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 Poetry for her 2011 collection Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.

All Quotes by Tracy K. Smith

“A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.”
— Tracy K. Smith
“I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.”
— Tracy K. Smith
“Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and experiencing poetry - and yet we somehow forget that we have those when it comes to sitting down with a book of poems.”
— Tracy K. Smith
“My hope is to create spaces where people of all stripes can come together and speak at a lower decibel level. We make more sense that way. We sound more like our real selves that way.”
— Tracy K. Smith
“I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.”
— Tracy K. Smith
“Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and experiencing poetry - and yet we somehow forget that we have those when it comes to sitting down with a book of poems.”
— Tracy K. Smith
“A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.”
— Tracy K. Smith