Tracy K. Smith Reads 'The Best American Poetry 2021'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 12, 2021

Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019, author of Such Color: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf, 2021) and editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 (Scribner, 2021), shares some of the best recent poetry to end the show.

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