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  • Tracy K. Smith
    Tracy K. Smith

    Smith also authored a memoir, Ordinary Light (2015), which explores the making of her identity, including her growing awareness as an adolescent of her Black heritage and the death of her mother from cancer when Smith was 22. Her fourth collection of poetry, Wade in the Water (2018), contemplates issues…

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    Smith also authored a memoir, Ordinary Light (2015), which explores the making of her identity, including her growing awareness as an adolescent of her Black heritage and the death of her mother from cancer when Smith was 22. Her fourth collection of poetry, Wade in the Water (2018), contemplates issues…

    Read More