Patricia Smith Reading

Washington University in St. Louis: The MFA Program Fall Reading Series 2019

Visiting Hurst Professor Patricia Smith is the author of seven books of poetry, including "Incendiary Art" (2017), winner of an NAACP Image Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; "Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah" (2012), which won the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; "Blood Dazzler" (2008), a chronicle of the human and environmental cost of Hurricane Katrina which was nominated for a National Book Award; and "Teahouse of the Almighty", a 2005 National Poetry Series selection published by Coffee House Press. Smith collaborated with the photographer Michael Abramson on the book "Gotta Go Gotta Flow: Life, Love, and Lust on Chicago’s South Side From the Seventies" (2015).

This event is free and open to the public. Patricia Smith's books will be available for purchase courtesy of Subterranean Books.

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