Tracy K Smith: 'Life on Mars' Poetry Reading

Brave Testimony Reading at the Kelly Writers House
Co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies
Introduced by Herman Beavers
TRACY K. SMITH is the author of three books of poetry: Life on Mars, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende, recipient of the 2006 James Laughlin Award' and The Body's Question, which won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith is also the recipient of a 2004 Rona Jaffe Award and a 2005 Whiting Award. She was the Literature protégé in the 2009-2011 cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
The BRAVE TESTIMONY series was inaugurated in 2001 as an annual event celebrates poetry of the African Diaspora.
[Note: this program took place on March 20, 2013. For more information: writing.upenn.e... ]