Sunday, June 18, 2017

New Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Talks About Her Plans

Despite the contentious political rhetoric of our now, Smith is looking forward to taking up the post in September. "Poetry gives us a vocabulary for the feelings that don't easily fit into language. And it's not a static vocabulary because we as beings are constantly changing and contradicting ourselves and growing and coming up against problems that feel completely new or happinesses that feel completely new."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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