Two new books by female writers consider what endures after upheaval. Patricia Smith's "The Intentions of Thunder" and Kanza ...

Patricia Smith starts her most recent collection, "Teahouse of the Almighty" (Coffee House, 2006), with a poem for sixth-graders at Lillie C. Evans School in Miami, where Smith taught in residencies ...

Ilya Kaminsky, professor of creative writing, and Patricia Smith, visiting professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Princeton Atelier, have been named Academy of American ...

Creative writing professor Patricia Smith set the basement of Labyrinth Books alight on Thursday with a reading of her new poetry collection “The Intentions of Thunder,” performing with words that ...

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling. In this week’s poem, Patricia Smith Ranzoni’s “Provenance,” we hear of a salvaged artifact, a recollection about growing up poor, and a musing on ...

Best known for: Bringing her bold, provocative and sometimes humorous poetry to life onstage. Sex, racism, God, politics: no topic is off-poetic limits for Smith. While her work holds its own on the ...

This cast is very special to me; it borders perhaps on what I’d call charming, and I’m not one to overuse that word. Here National Book Award finalist in poetry Patricia Smith and crime novelist Bruce ...

Maine poems introduced and edited by Megan Grumbling. In this week’s poem, Patricia Smith Ranzoni offers a homage to the spirit and legacy of Maine’s papermakers. I love this poem’s rich images of ...

Patricia Smith, an award-winning poet, author and playwright, is celebrated by critics as "a testament to the power of words to change lives." In conversation with author Alexs Pate, Smith reads from ...

Smith's promising first collection of poems draws from her experiences growing up--``growing tall tangled in bitter root''--on Chicago's segregated West Side during the race-torn '60s. There, the ...

Patricia Smith, winner of the 2021 Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement, is most recently the author of Unshuttered: Poems. Mar 29, 2024 / Poems / Patricia Smith Forgot Your ...

Poem on the 34 nursing home residents that were left during Hurricane Katrina to... Poem on the 34 nursing home residents that were left during Hurricane Katrina to parish in the floods.