On December 4th at the New School,
the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, Tracy K. Smith, will read from her award-winning Life on Mars (Graywolf
Press). She will then sit down with The New School’s Poetry Coordinator, David
Lehman, to discuss her work and answer questions from the audience. A former
student of Lehman, Smith is the author of two other books of poetry, Duende and The Body’s Question.
The time: 6:30 PM. The place: Lang Cafe, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11 Street, ground floor. You can enter there or at 66 West 12 Street.
In addition to her Pulitzer
Prize, Smith has received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, a 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 currently assistant
professor of creative writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She lives in Brooklyn.
Event moderated by David Lehman, Poetry
Coordinator, The School of Writing, The New School for Public Engagement.