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Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith is an inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and a winner of the National Book Awa...view morePatricia Smith is an inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. She is the author of nine acclaimed books of poetry, including Unshuttered; Incendiary Art, finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the 2018 NAACP Image Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist. A Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, Smith is a creative writing professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and a former distinguished professor at the City University of New York. She lives in New Jersey with her husband.view less
Books by Patricia Smith
Blood Dazzler: Poems The Year of Needy Girls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Teahouse of the Almighty Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Improvisation Without Accompaniment Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poems from My Heart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsL-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Story of Lynn: A Mother's Journey Through Love and Loss Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings