Tracy K. Smith named poet laureate of the United States

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Tracy K. Smith named poet laureate of the United States

Jun 14 2017

Tracy K. Smith has been named the 22nd poet laureate of the United States. Smith's poetry has won her such top awards in her field as the James Laughlin Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, and, for her 2011 collection Life on Mars, the Pulitzer Prize.

Source: Publishers Weekly

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