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TRACY K. SMITH Reading at Emerson
February 23, 2017 | 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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The Emerson College WLP Reading Series is pleased to present a Q&A and reading with TRACY K. SMITH, author of four acclaimed books: The Body’s Question (2003), which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African-American poet; Duende (2007), winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Essense Literary Award; Life on Mars (2011), which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; and the National Book Award nominated memoir, Ordinary Light (2015).
You can listen to an interview with TRACY K. SMITH on Studio 360 here.
The Q&A begins at 4:00PM and the reading begins at 6:00PM. Both events are free and open to the public.
Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.