Tracy’s appearance at the Anderson Center, 163 Tower View Dr., Red Wing, is part of the center’s Books in the Barn series that presents a wide-ranging look at the work of contemporary writers. Each of Smith’s four collections moves farther outward.” The press calls her new poems “brilliant, excoriating” work that “confronts America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices … urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it.” Graywolf Press says this book “traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable, the immense mysteries of existence. “Such Color” is Smith’s first career-spanning volume, including her collections “The Body’s Question” (2003), “Duende” (2007), “Life on Mars” (2011), and “Wade in the Water” (2018), as well as 18 new poems. She is a professor of Humanities and director of the creative writing program at Princeton University. In 2014 the Academy of American Poets awarded Smith the Academy Fellowship, given to one poet each year to recognize distinguished poetic achievement. Poet Laureate, is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir “Ordinary Light” and five books of poetry including “Such Color.” Her collection “Life on Mars” won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and several other awards. 1, to read from her latest collection, “Such Color: New and Selected Poems,” published by Minneapolis-based Graywolf Press. Smith will be in person at the Anderson Center near Red Wing at 7 p.m.

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