![]() The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress-commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate-serves as the official poet of the United States. Smith’s signature voice―inquisitive, lyrical, and wry―turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother, and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men, and violence. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory some collage an array of documents and voices and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. ![]() In Wade in the Water, past Poet Laureate Tracy K. ![]() ![]() Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages. ![]()
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