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April Poetry Lessons: Tracy K. Smith
Throughout April, we've had four recent Pulitzer Prize winners who teach in the area offer "master classes" and weekly assignments in honor of National Poetry Month.
Today, Brooklyn resident Tracy K. Smith, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Life on Mars: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011) and author of the memoir Ordinary Light (Knopf, 2015), wraps up the series.
And have you done your poetry homework yet? See Tracy K. Smith's assignment for you right here - and submit your own!