Tracy K. Smith
Author · 11 books
Tracy K. Smith is the author of Wade in the Water; Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award; and The Body’s Question, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is also the editor of an anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, and the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. From 2017 to 2019, Smith served as Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Princeton University.
Books

Such Color
New and Selected Poems
2021

Best New Poets 2015
50 Poems from Emerging Writers
2015

Eternity
Selected Poems
2019

To Free the Captives
A Plea for the American Soul
2023

Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t
2018

Wade in the Water
Poems
2018

The Body's Question
Poems
2003

Raised by Wolves
Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, A Graywolf Anthology
2024

Ordinary Light
A Memoir
2015

Duende
Poems
2007

Life on Mars
Poems
2011