Episode 1835
Poet Patricia Smith Wins the National Book Award
December 15, 202523m 13s
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Show Notes
Local New Jersey poet and Princeton professor Patricia Smith has won the National Book Award for her poetry collection, The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems. The collection covers her poetry from 1991 to 2024, and includes poems about jazz, family, Black identity, Hurricane Katrina, and more. Smith discusses the collection, and read some poetry.
Topics
contemporary_american_poetryblack_poetic_traditionsnational_book_award_poetryjazz_in_poetryfamily_and_identity_poetrycollected_poems_releasepoetry_reading_interviewhurricane_katrina_poems