Tracy K. Smith's Manifesto

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 6, 2023

Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019, author of To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul (Knopf, 2023), talks about her new book, a manifesto for facing our history and moving forward together.

→Event:  Tracy K. Smith will be in conversation with Imani Perry on December 7th at 7:00pm at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South.

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