Aug 28, 2023
BONUS: Poetry That Pays Attention with Patricia Smith
Through her poetry, Patricia Smith generously, skillfully puts language around what can be seen both in the present and deliberately looking back at oneself. We are excited to offer this conversation between Pádraig and Patricia, recorded during the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey. Together, they explore how memory, persona, and a practice of curiosity inform Patricia’s work, and the ways writing a poem is like writing a piece of music.
Patricia Smith is the author of nine books of poetry, including _Unshuttered_ (Triquarterly Books, 2023);_ __Incendiary Art__ _(Triquarterly Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize;_ __Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah__ _(Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and _Blood Dazzler__ _(Coffee House Press, 2008), a National Book Award finalist. Her work has appeared in _Poetry_,_ The Paris Review_,_ The Baffler_,_ The Washington Post_,_ The New York Times_,_ Tin House_,_ _and in _Best American Poetry_,_ Best American Essays_, and _Best American Mystery Stories_. Smith is a Distinguished Professor for the City University of New York, a visiting professor in creative writing at Princeton University, and a faculty member in the Vermont College of Fine Arts postgraduate residency program.
Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.