Patricia Smith: A Poetry Reading

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Patricia Smith: A Poetry Reading
In Dialogue with Writers
Patricia Smith is a masterful poet, performer, and
pundit. And while her chosen field is the form
and grace of language, her gift to the world that
orbits the Black experience is truth.
- Writer Walter Mosley
Patricia Smith is a National Book Award finalist (2008) and
the author of six critically acknowledged volumes of poetry.
Her awards and honors include the 2014 Rebekah Johnson
Bobbitt National Prize from the Library of Congress, the 2013
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American
Poets, and a 2013 Phillis Wheatley Book Award. She is nominated
for this year’s Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
A formidable performer, Smith has read her work at venues all
over the United States and around the world.

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“There’s my child coming to rest one layer below the surface of the rest of my life, there”

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Wonderful - Marko (a poet of St Albans).

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Masterful