In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. We are proud to invite you to a reading with the U.S. Poet Laureate. Full event details.

Tracy K. Smith is the author of three previous books of poetry: The Body’s Question; Duende; and Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2017, Smith was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. She is Professor of the Humanities and Director and Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.