Quotes by Tracy K. Smith

About Tracy K. Smith:

Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2011 collection, Life on Mars. About this collection, Joel Brouwer wrote in 2011: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition. ... As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled."
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everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere

Tracy K. Smith

[...] the body is what we lean toward, tensing as it darts, dancing away. but it's the voice that enters us. even saying nothing. even saying nothing over and over absently to itself

Tracy K. Smith

from time to time, i think of him watching me from over the top of his glasses, or eating candy from a jar. i remember thanking him each time the session was done. but mostly what i see is a human hand reaching down to lift a pebble from my tongue

Tracy K. Smith

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

Tracy K. Smith

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

Tracy K. Smith

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Tracy K. Smith

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

Tracy K. Smith

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Tracy K. Smith

Author Bio

  • NameTracy K. Smith
  • DescriptionAmerican poet
  • BornApril 16, 1972
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Poetry