Tracy K. Smith
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Professor of African and African American Studies
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute
*Currently accepting graduate student advisees
Barker Center 214
Office hours: By appointment
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Education: B.A., Harvard College (1994)
M.F.A., Columbia University (1997)
Interests: American poetry; African American poetry; creative writing; literary criticism; translation
Selected Works:
Fear Not: Poetry in Perilous Times (2025), To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul (2023), Such Color: New and Selected Poems (2021); Wade in the Water (2018); Ordinary Light (2015); Life on Mars (2011); Duende (2007); The Body's Question (2003)