CWRU's Common Reading selection for 2021-2022 is Tracy K. Smith's Wade in the Water. The Writing Program offers the following resources for using this text in First Seminars and other writing courses.

Tracy K. Smith deserves a round of applause, because she has just been named the new poet laureate, which the Library of Congress defines as a role that "seeks to raise the national consciousness to a ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Ever since Tracy K. Smith became the U.S. poet laureate in 2017, she has been hosting readings big and small in all corners of the country. Tracy K. Smith, poet Laureate, brings her podcast to public ...

Today marks the start of an exciting project at All Things Considered called NewsPoet. Each month we'll be bringing in a poet to spend time in the newsroom — and at the end, to compose a poem ...

‘Life on Mars’ Author Explores Humans’ Relationship With Universe Through Poetry "Life on Mars," Tracy K. Smith's third book, explores the cosmos through words. The Princeton creative writing ...

As we inch toward the holidays, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith shares how she's processing grief, a subject at the center of much of... How to process grief during the holidays, according ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Outgoing U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón and her two immediate predecessors, Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, are condemning President Donald Trump's firing of Librarian of Congress Carla ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Tracy K. Smith is an Author with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2015 Interview as a Professor for Creative Writing in the Princeton ...