The Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series: Tracy K. Smith

Location

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Theatre

Free

The Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series is celebrating its 15th anniversary!

Join us for a reading with the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Ordinary Light (2015), and three books of poetry, including her most recent, Wade in the Water (2018). Her collection, Life on Mars, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Smith was honored with a Rona Jaffe Writers Award in 2004, a Whiting Award in 2005 and an academy fellowship by the Academy of American Poets in 2014. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 professor in the humanities, and director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

Q&A, book signing and dessert reception following the reading.

Reading is free and open to the public. Please plan to arrive early, as we expect this event to fill up quickly!

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