Tracy K. Smith, Friday, October 28, 7:00 p.m.

WHEN: Friday, October 28, 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Downtown YMCA, 340 Montgomery St.

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Free and open to the public.

Tracy K. Smith was raised in Northern California. She received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard College and Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University from 1997-99. Her book, The Body's Question, was awarded the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Kevin Young, and published in 2003 by Graywolf Press. She is the recipient of a 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award, a fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Callaloo, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Gulf Coast, the Nebraska Review, Post Road, and anthologies Poetry 30, Poetry Daily, Autumn House, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, and will serve as Lecturer in Creative Writing at Princeton from September 2005-July 2006.

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