Fri October 4, 2019
Internationally Acclaimed Poet Patricia Smith at Mills College
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Poet Patricia Smith will give a reading followed by a conversation with with Mills faculty, writer, and performer Elmaz Abinader
A master of poetic forms, Patricia Smith's writing fearlessly engages with America's continuous war on black bodies. She is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, NAACP Image Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer. Smith is a Guggenheim fellow and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition's history. She is a professor at the College of Staten Island and teaches widely, including at the VONA summer workshop.
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A master of poetic forms, Patricia Smith's writing fearlessly engages with America's continuous war on black bodies. She is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, NAACP Image Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer. Smith is a Guggenheim fellow and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition's history. She is a professor at the College of Staten Island and teaches widely, including at the VONA summer workshop.
Poet Patricia Smith will give a reading followed by a conversation with with Mills faculty, writer, and performer Elmaz Abinader
A master of poetic forms, Patricia Smith's writing fearlessly engages with America's continuous war on black bodies. She is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, NAACP Image Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer. Smith is a Guggenheim fellow and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition's history. She is a professor at the College of Staten Island and teaches widely, including at the VONA summer workshop.
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A master of poetic forms, Patricia Smith's writing fearlessly engages with America's continuous war on black bodies. She is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, NAACP Image Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer. Smith is a Guggenheim fellow and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition's history. She is a professor at the College of Staten Island and teaches widely, including at the VONA summer workshop.
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