Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Cultivates Community

In her 2015 memoir Ordinary Light, US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote that poetry fostered “not just pleasure but an indescribable comfort” and defined her intellectual and experiential relationship to poetry as a “dialect of the soul.” Throughout her award-winning work — which includes The Body’s Question (2003), Duende (2007), and American Journal:…