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Patricia Smith (born Patricia Harlan Smith; February 20, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress who performed on stage, in films, and on television from the early 1950s to the late 1990s.
Patricia Smith (born 1955) is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist.
Patricia Smith (she/her) has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of Unshuttered (Northwestern University Press, 2023), Incendiary Art (Northwestern University Press, 2017), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, an NAACP Image Award, and finalist…
One of Smith’s greatest strengths as a poet—and one constant in her career—is her willingness to take real risks. She is unafraid to write her way into difficult, thorny subjects, to probe areas that are unknowable, extreme, or politically fraught.
She is a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, making her the most successful poet in the competition’s history, and a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. In 2023, Smith was the recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
ABOUT. PATRICIA SMITH is the 2021 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the Poetry Foundation, and a 2022 inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including Unshuttered (Feb 2023); Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the ...
A conversation with Patricia Smith, winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. By Saeed Jones. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. In contemporary American poetry, all roads lead to Patricia Smith.
Patricia Smith has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of six books of poetry, a mystery writer, a historian, a journalist, a performer and children's book author.
Nov 20, 2017 · Her awards and honors include the 2014 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize from the Library of Congress, the 2013 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and a 2013 ...
Patricia Smith is a nationally acclaimed poet, performer, and teacher, and the author of several books including her most recent, Incendiary Art.
