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Patricia Smith (born 1955) is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist.
Patricia Smith (she/her) has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of Unshuttered (Northwestern University Press, 2023), Incendiary Art (Northwestern University Press, 2017), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, an NAACP Image Award, and finalist…
Patricia Smith (born Patricia Harlan Smith; February 20, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress who performed on stage, in films, and on television from the early 1950s to the late 1990s.
Patricia Smith: Selections. A masterful performer and poet of voices too little heard. By Benjamin Voigt. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. [Jump to poems by publication year: 1990s | 2000s | 2010s]
A conversation with Patricia Smith, winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. By Saeed Jones. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. In contemporary American poetry, all roads lead to Patricia Smith.
PATRICIA SMITH is the 2021 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the Poetry Foundation, and a 2022 inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Patricia Smith - Patricia Smith is a poet, teacher, and performance artist. Her poetry collections include Incendiary Art and Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the 2013 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Mar 13, 2023 · Patricia Smith. In Unshuttered, the narratives are attached to the images—but, then again, they’re not. There is absolutely no way I could say “Here’s exactly what this person sounded like, and here’s exactly what they would say.”
Oct 30, 2023 · Patricia Smith is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an award for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including Unshuttered (2023), a collection of dramatic monologues accompanied by 19th-century photos of African Americans; Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Awa...
Patricia Smith has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of six books of poetry, a mystery writer, a historian, a journalist, a performer and children's book author.
