![]() ![]() Her second book, Duende (2007), won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the 2008 Essence Magazine Literary Award. As an undergraduate, Smith joined the Dark Room Collective, a black reading series and writers’ group that fostered the diverse aesthetic summoned in their unofficial motto: “Total life is what we want.” Smith’s first collection of poetry, The Body’s Question (2003) was selected by Kevin Young for the 2002 Cave Canem Prize. She earned a BA from Harvard and an MFA from Columbia. Smith was born in 1972 in Massachusetts and raised in northern California. Her poems play those edges in strange music. In three books of poetry and a memoir, Smith explores how loss and birth and belief and desire make blurry life’s edges. Smith’s 2011 collection, Life on Mars.These boldly roving questions characterize Smith’s work. “Is God being or pure force? The wind / Or what commands it?” begins “The Weather in Space,” the opening poem in Tracy K. ![]()
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