DBBD Season 11: Poetry is Anti Capitalist with Tracy K. Smith

In this episode of DB|BD, hosts Jessica Helfand and Ellen McGirt sit down with Pulitzer prize winning poet Tracy K. Smith, to talk through the writing process of two of her most recent works: the libretto for The Righteous and her 2024 memoir-manifesto To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul. Smith also candidly engages in conversation about how she finds faith when you otherwise feel empty, how she uses history to inform her analysis of the current moment and how her employer and alma mater, Harvard, can emerge from this period of institutional struggle.
And stick around to the end of the episode to hear Tracy K. Smith read one of her poems live!
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