The Brooklyn Poets website features a poem by–AND a great interview with– Patricia Smith, one of the world’s most honored poets.
She is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award, the 2017 LA Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP Image Award and a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize
The poem appears in both text and audio.
By the way, the greatest honor of MY life is that Patricia is my wife. You can find the poem and interview here.
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