Princeton's Tracy K. Smith Wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Other Pulitzer Prize winners on the Princeton faculty include Jeffrey Eugenides, Paul Muldoon and C.K. Williams, professors of creative writing in the Lewis Center; John McPhee, the Ferris Professor of Journalism; and Toni Morrison, the Robert Goheen Prof

  News provided courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications.   Tracy K. Smith, an assistant professor of creative writing in Princeton University's Lewis Center for Arts, today won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "Life on Mars," which the prize committee calls "a collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain." "Life on Mars," published by Graywolf Press in 2011, is Smith's third published collection.     "This news is particularly elating, because I think of the book as a tribute to my father, who passed away in 2008," she said. Smith, who lives in Brooklyn, first learned of her winning from her husband, who had just read it on The New York …

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You Said It Monday: Raritan Poets Society

The Raritan Poets Society celebrated National Poetry Month April 5 with an open reading.

Welcome to "You Said It," East Brunswick Patch’s video feature. Each week we’ll pose a new question and go out into the community to see what local residents think. A new video will be posted right here every afternoon Monday through Friday. This week East Brunswick Patch visited an open reading with the Raritan Poets Society at the East Brunswick Public Library to celebrate National Poetry Month. Here are a few pieces read by members and other poets that night. The group meets at the library every month. So what do you think? Join the conversation! Post a comment below or send an email to Patch Editor John Saccenti at john.saccenti@patch.com.

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