Tracy K. Smith

American poet and educator.

Tracy became interested in writing and poetry in elementary school. Her favorites included Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain. For Tracy, Dickinson’s poems were “magic” to her ears.

A.B. from Harvard University, M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. Writer, poet, wife, mother, teacher…and she’s 45 years young!

In 2002, she received the Cave Canem Prize. 2006, the James Laughlin Award. 2012 she won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In 2018, she’ll launch her fifth book, “Wade in the Water”

2005 to present-Professor of creative writing at Princeton University.

I encourage you to check out her Poetry Foundation. Click the “Listen” button and absorb!

Write your poems, ideas, dreams and desires down. Put pen to paper. Start early, and young. Start living the life you are dreaming about! Believe in yourself, your ideas and the words will flow. Tracy did.