![]() ![]() ![]() The work is an elegy for her father, an engineer who worked on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. And so, to me, a poem is a real vehicle for empathy.” Smith’s collection of poems, titled “Life on Mars,” won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. And it’s not a static vocabulary because we are beings constantly changing and contradicting ourselves and growing and coming up against problems that feel completely new or happiness that feel completely new We also find a deeper connection to others by acknowledging the feelings that they house as well. Smith, a Pulitzer Prize winner, the nation’s 22nd Poet Laureate and her recognition is being trumpeted in more than the usual places.Īfter being named poet laureate, Smith told National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” “Poetry gives us a vocabulary for feeling that doesn’t easily fit into language. ![]() The Library of Congress has named Tracy K. ![]()
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