Tracy K Smith: US Poet Laureate

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  • Nov 01, 2018

 

NOTE: Pre-registration has ended. Unfilled seats will be first come, first serve. Please arrive by 6:45 PM. 

U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith visits Lewiston Public Library as part of her project “American Conversations: Celebrating Poems in Rural Communities.” This free, public program will take place in LPL’s Callahan Hall on Thursday, November 1st at 7 PM.

To coincide with her “American Conversations” visits, Tracy K. Smith is also unveiling a new poetry anthology featuring the work of 50 living American poets: American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time. As the title suggests, they are contemplating what it feels like to live, work, love, strive, raise a family, and survive many kinds of loss in this vast and varied nation.

Community Co-Sponsors: 
Lewiston Public Library | 21st Century | Choose Yourself
City of Lewiston | Auburn Public Library | For Us, By Us
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance | Tree Street Youth
Maine Community Integration | Bates College
Literacy Volunteers of Androscoggin County | Museum L/A