{"id":66381,"date":"2025-10-21T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/patricia-smith-presidents-reading-series-literature-of-social-import\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:49:53","slug":"patricia-smith-presidents-reading-series-literature-of-social-import","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/event\/patricia-smith-presidents-reading-series-literature-of-social-import\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Smith: President\u2019s Reading Series \u2013 Literature of Social Import"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Patricia Smith<\/a> is the award-winning author of eight critically acclaimed books of poetry, including\u202fUnshuttered<\/em>\u202f (Triquarterly Books, 2023);\u202fIncendiary Art\u202f<\/em> (Triquarterly Books,\u202f2017),\u202fwinner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize;\u202fShoulda Been Jimi Savannah\u202f<\/em> (Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets;\u202fBlood Dazzler \u202f<\/em>(Coffee House Press, 2008),<\/em>\u202fa National Book Award finalist; and\u202fGotta Go, Gotta Flow<\/em> \u202f(CityFiles Press,\u202f2015), a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes\u202fTeahouse of the Almighty<\/em>\u202f (Coffee House Press, 2006),\u202fBig Towns Big Talk<\/em>\u202f (Zoland Books, 2002),\u202fClose to Death<\/em>\u202f (Zoland Books, 1998),\u202fand\u202fLife According to Motown<\/em>\u202f (Tia Chucha, 1991);\u202fthe children’s book\u202fJanna and the Kings\u202f<\/em> (Lee & Low, 2013); and the history\u202fAfricans in America\u202f<\/em> (Mariner, 1999), a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her next book is The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems,<\/em><\/strong> to be published by Scribner in September 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n

Her work has appeared in\u202fPoetry<\/em>,\u202fThe Paris Review<\/em>,\u202fThe Baffler<\/em>,\u202fThe Washington Post<\/em>,\u202fThe New York Times<\/em>, and\u202fTin House<\/em>\u202f as well as\u202fBest American Poetry<\/em>,\u202fBest American Essays<\/em>,\u202f<\/em>and\u202fBest American Mystery Stories<\/em>. She co-edited\u202fThe Golden Shovel Anthology\u2014New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks\u202f<\/em> (University of Arkansas Press, 2017),\u202fand edited the crime fiction anthology\u202fStaten Island Noir (<\/em>Akashic Books, 2012).<\/p>\n

Smith is a Guggenheim fellow, a Civitellian, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition\u2019s history. She is a professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, a former Distinguished Professor for the City University of New York, an Academy of American Poets Chancellor, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

Photo: Sandro\u202fMiller\u00a0<\/sub><\/sup><\/p>\n

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