Tracy K. Smith

An Old Story

An Old Story An Old Story

We were made to understand it would be Terrible. Every small want, every niggling urge, Every hate swollen to a kind of epic wind. Livid, the land, and ravaged, like a rageful Drea…

Jun 29, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Tracy K. Smith

The United States Welcomes You

The United States Welcomes You The United States Welcomes You

Why and by whose power were you sent? What do you see that you may wish to steal? Why all this dancing? Why do your dark bodies Drink up the light? What are you demanding That we f…

Jun 29, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Tracy K. Smith

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