Poetry Forum: Tracy K. Smith 6:30 p.m. The New School Lang Café, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, Ground Floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)

TracySmithOn December 4th at the New School, the
2012 Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, Tracy K. Smith, will join David Lehman to read her poems and discuss her work. A former
student of Lehman, Smith is the author of  the Pulitzer winning  Life on Mars (Graywolf, 2011), and two previous volumes, Duende, and The Body’s Question.

Along with her Pulitzer
Prize, Smith’s awards and honors include a Wallace Stegner
Fellowship at Stanford University, the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award, a 2008
Essence Literary Award, a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, a
fellowship from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, and a 2005 Whiting Award.

She has taught at the City
University of New York, University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University, and
is now an assistant professor of creative writing at Princeton University. She lives in Brooklyn.