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SUMMARY:An Evening with Kara Swisher & Mary Barra
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nJoin PBS Books as we offer a special evening with best-selling author\, Kara Swisher\, and General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra\, which is being presented by the University of Michigan’s Wallace House Center for Journalists and the Gerald R. Ford of Public Policy\, as part of the university’s continuing series: “Democracy in Crisis: Views from the Press.”  \nAward-winning journalist\, author\, and podcaster\, Kara Swisher has interviewed nearly every consequential innovator and tech entrepreneur working today. Her new memoir\, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story\, is an insider’s tale of success\, failure\, hubris\, and optimism. As the electric vehicle revolution becomes a predominate topic in this country\, Swisher sits down with Mary Barra\, Chair and CEO of General Motors\, to discuss her new book and explore the dynamic interplay of legacy companies\, innovation\, strategic bets on the future and tech’s potential to solve problems and not just create them.  \nBook Description:\nFrom award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty\, scathing\, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. \nPart memoir\, part history\, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. From “the queen of all media” (Walt Mossberg\, Wall Street Journal)\, this is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. \nAbout Wallace House:\nWallace House Center for Journalists at the University of Michigan is committed to fostering excellence in journalism. It is home to programs that recognize\, sustain and elevate the careers of journalists to address the challenges of journalism today\, foster civic engagement and uphold the role of a free press in a democratic society. It believes in the fundamental mission of journalism to document\, interpret\, analyze and investigate the forces shaping society. \nGuest Biographies:\nKara Swisher\, Award-Winning Journalist\nKara Swisher is the host of the podcast\, “On with Kara Swisher\,” and the cohost of the “Pivot” podcast with Scott Galloway\, both distributed by New York magazine. She was the co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode\, host of the “Recode Decode” podcast and co-executive producer of the Code conference. She was a former contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and host of its “Sway” podcast and has also worked for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story” is her third book. \nMary Barra\, General Motors Chair & CEO\nMary Barra is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Under Barra’s leadership\, GM envisions a world with zero crashes\, zero emissions and zero congestion. Prior to becoming CEO\, Barra served as GM executive vice president\, Global Product Development\, Purchasing and Supply Chain\, and as senior vice president\, Global Product Development. In these roles\, Barra and her teams were responsible for the design\, engineering and quality of GM vehicle launches worldwide.
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SUMMARY:The Wright Conversations with Poet Nikki Giovanni
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nAs part of its Wright Conversations series\, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History presents Nikki Giovanni\, one of this country’s most widely read poets and one of America’s most renowned poets worldwide. Her poem\, “Knoxville\, Tennessee\,” is arguably the single literary work most often associated with that city. Giovanni has received numerous awards in the course of her career\, including seven Image Awards from the N.A.A.C.P.\, more than two-dozen honorary degrees\, the first Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award\, the Langston Hughes Medal for Poetry\, and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award; additionally\, Oprah Winfrey recognized her in 2005 as one of twenty-five “Living Legends.” She continues to teach\, write\, and publish books. Her most recent collection\, “Make Me Rain\,” was released in October of 2020. \nGuest Biography:\nNikki Giovanni\, Poet\nPoet Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville\, Tennessee\, on June 7\, 1943. Although she grew up in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, she and her sister returned to Knoxville each summer to visit their grandparents. Nikki graduated with honors in history from her grandfather’s alma mater\, Fisk University. Since 1987\, she has been on the faculty at Virginia Tech\, where she is a University Distinguished Professor. She has been nominated for a Grammy and a finalist for the National Book Award. She has authored three New York Times and Los Angeles Times best-sellers\, highly unusual for a poet. For more information in the words of the poet herself\, visit here.
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SUMMARY:Lynn Hershman Leeson | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION: \nThis speaker event was recorded live on Thursday\, March 28\, 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Michigan Theater\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \nAs part of the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival\, this special program will showcase a curated selection of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s short films\, followed by a conversation. Filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson will join remotely\, and curator Julia Yezbick will interview her from the Michigan Theater’s stage. \nLynn Hershman Leeson’s work cannot be contained by any one medium. Her practice is voracious; consuming both traditional artistic media (installation\, painting\, and video) as well as interactive LaserDiscs and synthetic DNA. Responding to the social and scientific technologies of the day\, Hershman Leeson’s work anticipates the quandaries into which we will be collectively thrown. Her performance piece as Roberta Breitmore (1973) underscored the gendered contours of personhood as defined by the state\, laying bare the ways in which we reproduce ourselves as ephemeral simulacra according to these superstructures. She was working with chatbots (Agent Ruby\, 1998 – 2002) downloadable to a Palm Pilot decades before chatGPT had broken into public consciousness\, questioning the role that artificial intelligences will play in our lives. This program of her short film and video works highlights her long-held fascination with reality\, selfhood\, and technological reproduction\, prompting us to question whether it is at all possible to disambiguate ourselves from our tech-saturated worlds. Her short films shown here distill the impetus of her decades-long work: a quest for freedom from the many constraints imposed on us by society and the potentialities as well as the pitfalls presented by the ongoing technological augmentation of our lives.  \nJulia Yezbick is a filmmaker\, artist\, programmer\, and anthropologist. She received her PhD in Media Anthropology and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University. Her audio and video works have been exhibited at the Berlin International Film Festival\, the Art Gallery of Ontario\, the New York Library for Performing Arts\, Station Arts Space (Beirut)\, the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, the Broad Underground Film series (Lansing)\, the AgX Film Collective\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Detroit. Yezbick’s works of experimental nonfiction are grounded in feminist responses to social issues such as housing and urban transformations as well as commentaries on gendered labor\, identity\, and movement and the body. She is a 2018 Kresge Artist Fellow for film\, the founding Editor of Sensate: a journal for experiments in critical media practice\, and co-directs Mothlight Microcinema in Detroit. Yezbick is currently an Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. \nLearn More>> \n\n\nThe Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Spring 2024 Season\nThis spring\, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series brings respected leaders and innovators from a broad spectrum of creative fields to Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater for weekly in-person events. \nDetroit Public Television and PBS Books\, in partnership with the Stamps School\, will stream each week’s event Fridays at 8pm. \nSee the full schedule of events livestreamed by PBS Books here. \nSome programs may not be available online\, depending on artist requests. Interested in receiving notifications before online videos go live? Sign up to receive a reminder before each event begins streaming. \nWatch Past Penny Stamps Episodes
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SUMMARY:"You Are Here" Author Talk with Ada Limón
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nPBS Books is thrilled to celebrate Poetry Month and Earth Month with Ada Limón\, the 24th Poet Laurette of the United States. National Director of PBS Books\, Heather-Marie Montilla and Ada Limón discuss her recently published anthology You Are Here: Poetry In The Natural World\, a collection of fifty poems that reflect on our relationship to the natural world by contemporary writers. Collaboratively published by Milkweed Editions and the Library of Congress\, this anthology depicts the ever-changing poetic landscape. Ada Limón provides a new foundation on how we can explore and enjoy poetry in our own unique way and discusses her important work as the first Latina US Poet Laurette\, making poetry more accessible for all Americans. Highlights include her collaboration with the National Park Service and NASA on exciting projects.  \nYou Are Here\nPublished in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States\, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated contemporary writers. \nFor many years\, “nature poetry” has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically\, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States\, Ada Limón\, this book challenges what we think we know about “nature poetry\,” illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. \nYou Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets\, including Joy Harjo\, Diane Seuss\, Rigoberto González\, Jericho Brown\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, Paul Tran\, and more. Each poem engages with its author’s local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park\, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States. \nRead More by Ada Limón:\nThe Carrying\nThe Carrying by Ada Limón \nVulnerable\, tender\, acute\, these are serious poems\, brave poems\, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility—“What if\, instead of carrying / a child\, I am supposed to carry grief?”—and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza\, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us\, as ever\, the persistence of hunger\, love\, and joy\, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then\, / I’ll take it\,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” \nIn Bright Dead Things\, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power\, heavy with blood”—“the huge beating genius machine / that thinks\, no\, it knows\, / it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection\, that heart is on full display—even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream\, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world. \nThe Hurting Kind\nThe Hurting Kind by Ada Limón \n“I have always been too sensitive\, a weeper / from a long line of weepers\,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys\, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings—and to know that those beings are resolutely their own\, that they “do not / care to be seen as symbols”? \nWith Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought\, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories and ways of knowing\, making surprising turns\, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons\, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents\, stepparents\, and grandparents: the sacrifices made\, the separate lives lived\, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance\, in retrospect\, of having two families. \nAlong the way\, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic\, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled\, above all\, with connection and the delight of being in the world. “Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning’s shade\,” writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden\, “she is doing what she can to survive.” \nLucky Wreck\nLucky Wreck by Ada Limón \nThe poems in Lucky Wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television\, road trips ending in traffic accidents\, and homes that become sites of infestation\, Ada Limón finds threads of hope amid an array of small tragedies and significant setbacks. Open\, honest\, and grounded\, the poems in this collection seek answers to familiar questions and teach us ways to cope with the pain of many losses with earnestness and humor. Through the wrecks\, these poems continue to offer assurance. \nCelebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Limón’s award-winning debut\, this edition includes a new introduction by the poet that reflects on the book and on how her writing practice has developed over time. \n  \nBright Dead Things\nBright Dead Things by Ada Limón \nA book of bravado and introspection\, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss\, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact—tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker’s sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky\, loses a dear parent\, ages past the capriciousness of youth\, and falls in love. \n \nGuest Biography:\nAda Limón\, Poet\nAda Limón the author of six books of poetry\, including The Carrying\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her most recent book of poetry\, The Hurting Kind\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and wrote a poem that will be engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft that will be launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States\, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. She will serve as Poet Laureate until the spring of 2025. In October of 2023 she was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/author-talk-ada-limon/
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SUMMARY:PBS Books Readers Club - Scott Alexander Howard
DESCRIPTION:Readers Club HomeEpisodes \nEpisode Description:\nJoin the PBS Books Readers Club as we plumb the depths of Scott Alexander Howard’s debut novel\, The Other Valley. Fans of the PBS series A Brief History Of The Future and books like Never Let Me Go and The Giver will enjoy this book about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future. \nThe Other Valley tells the story of Odile\, an awkward\, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position\, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On the other side\, it’s the same valley\, the same town. Except to the east\, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west\, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. This thrilling page-turner will make readers ask the question: would you want to know your future if you could? And what would you risk to change it? The Other Valley is a Simon & Schuster Top Shelf Pick\, a Goodreads Most Anticipated Fantasy\, Science Fiction\, and Horror Book of 2024\, and is soon to be a TV series. \nSo don’t miss this chance to join the PBS Books Readers Club in conversation with Scott Alexander Howard about this pick that Booklist calls “Beautifully written… a triumph.”  \nAbout the Book:\nGet the E-BookDONATE NOW and download your e-book copy. \nSixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward\, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position\, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On the other side\, it’s the same valley\, the same town. Except to the east\, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west\, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see\, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future\, on a mourning tour\, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present. Edme––who is brilliant\, funny\, and the only person to truly see Odile––is about to die. Sworn to secrecy in order to preserve the timeline\, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy\, imperiling her entire future. \nGuest Biography:\nScott Alexander Howard\nScott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard\, where his work focused on the relationship between memory\, emotion\, and literature. The Other Valley is his first novel. Connect with him at ScottAlexanderHoward.com. \nReaders Club Hosts:\nHeather Marie Montilla\nHeather-Marie Montilla\, a dynamic integrative leader\, is an educator and nonprofit manager. She has worked in the nonprofit sector and libraries for over two decades\, making a positive impact in arts\, cultural\, educational\, and community-building arenas. \nHaving joined the PBS Books team as their Library Bureau Chief in Fall 2018\, Montilla is now the National Director of PBS Books and has interviewed more than 150 writers. In addition\, she is a faculty member at Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University for their Arts and Cultural/Entertainment Management Programs. Having been an Executive Director for 8 years\, Heather has a wide range of experience in management\, finance\, strategic planning\, marketing\, and fundraising. Heather holds a MPA From Columbia University\, a MLIS from Wayne State University\, and a bachelor’s from Duke University. She lives in Chicagoland\, and is married with four children\, a dog\, and a bird. \nPrincess Weekes\nPrincess Weekes is an award winning writer and video essayist who works at breaking down the intersections between race\, gender\, and pop culture. Formally an Assistant Editor at The Mary Sue\, co-host of Netflix’s The Geeked Podcast\, and co-host and co-writer on the PBS Digital Series It’s Lit. On weekends she works as a bookseller at a local bookstore. When not reading or writing she can be found playing TTRPGs of cuddling with her cat\, Lola. \nLauren Smith\nExecutive Producer and host of national PBS programming at Detroit Public TV\, Lauren develops content for PBS and other distributors of public media for broadcast\, streaming\, and other digital channels and has executive-produced and/or produced over 60 national broadcast and programs. Her passion is to develop inspiring\, entertaining\, and educational content alongside the best national and international talent\, and to engage important content with communities across the country. Lauren loves to read and has worked to develop and produce PBS Books content for nearly ten years! \nFred Nahhat \nFred Nahhat is an Emmy Award-winning producer\, host\, and presenter for Detroit’s PBS station\, where he serves as Sr. VP of Production. A 30-year broadcast veteran\, Fred has hosted and produced numerous programs for Public TV – including music specials from Il Volo\, Celtic Gold and the New Divas – as well as other series and specials “New Year’s Eve with the DSO”\, “The Detroit Dream Cruise\,” “The PBS Books Readers Club” and “Get Up\, Get Out\,” among others. \nHe is a graduate of Wayne State University and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Michigan Chapter\, USA Hockey\, and Leadership Detroit.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/readers-club-104/
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SUMMARY:Visions of America: Voices of Arab American Experiences - Exploring the Arab American National Museum
DESCRIPTION:Visions of America HomeEpisodesProgram Description:\nJoin VISIONS OF AMERICA: All the Stories\, People & Places as we highlight Arab Americans stories and communities through our episode Voices of Arab-American Experiences\, Exploring the Arab American National Museum. VISIONS OF AMERICA is a collaboration between PBS Books and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that highlights cultural institutions and captures first-person experiences to celebrate the diverse tapestry of America\, as we approach the American’s semiquincentennial. \nIMLS Deputy Director Laura Huerta Migus talks with the Director of the Arab American National Museum Diana Abouali\, Ph.D. about her important institution\, its cultural and community significance\, and some exciting museum projects. IMLS Acting Deputy Director of Library Services Anthony Smith discusses with librarian and scholar Kaoukab Cherbaro about her work\, Arab American culture\, heritage\, and preservation\, while highlighting her recent exhibit Science\, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science. \nMore to discover with Visions of America:\n  \n \nDiscover more with Dr. Kaoukab Chebaro who has spent her career championing for the preservation of the individual history of Arabs across the globe. Her work within these institutions has brought first person storytelling center stage. Hear more about the important work being done to amplify the Arab American story through incredible archive efforts across the areas of math\, science\, poetry\, language\, culture and more.  \nExhibits & Projects: \nArab American National Museum – Museum Website\nScience\, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science – Exhibit Brochure\, Learn More About the Exhibit\nThe Muslim World Project – Muslim World Project\, What Can Manuscripts Teach Us?\nPalestinian Oral History Archive – Archive\nIslamic Science Exhibit Catalog – Exhibit Brochure\, Learn More About the Exhibit\nSam Hamod\, Poet – Dying With the Wrong Name\, About Sam Hamod\nDunya Mikhail\, Poet – About Dunya\nGuest Biographies:\nDiana Abouali – Director of the Arab American National Museum\nDiana Abouali is the director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM). She has worked in higher education and in the museum and cultural heritage sectors in the United States\, Palestine and Jordan. Diana joined ACCESS in 2019. \nRead More\nBorn in Toronto\, Canada to Palestinian parents\, Diana completed her secondary education in Kuwait. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and received an MA in Middle Eastern Studies (1995) and a PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies (2004) from Harvard University. From 2005 to 2012\, Diana was an assistant professor at Dartmouth College\, teaching courses in Arab-Islamic civilization\, gender studies and the social and cultural history of the Middle East. \nFrom 2012 to 2013\, Diana worked as Head of Research and Collections at the newly established Palestinian Museum in Birzeit\, Palestine. Relocating to Amman\, Jordan in 2014\, she worked as Director of Education\, Outreach and Awareness at the Petra National Trust. She was Project Manager at Tiraz: Widad Kawar Home for Arab Dress on an AHRC-ESRC Global Challenges Fund (UK) project\, in cooperation with Plymouth University and the Information and Research Center-King Hussein Foundation. In that position and as part of a larger study of resilience among male Syrian artisan refugees in Jordan\, she co-produced a training program and toolkit in social-enterprise creation to preserve cultural heritage. Diana has organized and delivered cultural heritage education workshops to Syrian children and women in the Azraq and Zaatari refugee camps\, and occasionally teaches college-level courses in the U.S. and Jordan. Diana is a member of the general assembly of Taawon-Welfare Association\, the largest Palestinian NGO that provides development and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory and Lebanon. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of ArteEast (NYC) and CultureSource (MI) and serves on the Citizens Advisory Committee at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She is a graduate of Leadership Detroit XLI. \nKaoukab Chebaro – Head\, Global Studies\, Columbia University\nKaoukab Chebaro currently serves as the Head of Global Studies at the Columbia University Libraries. She previously served as Associate University Librarian for Archives and Special Collections at the Libraries of the American University of Beirut\, and as the Islamic and Middle East Studies Librarian at the Columbia University Libraries. \nRead More\nKaoukab has served on numerous Library\, archives and cultural heritage committees in or about the region. She has also served as the PI for the NEH-funded Palestinian Oral History Archive (2016-19). Kaoukab is interested in oral history as a tool at the service of expanding the politics of knowledge production and representation\, specifically around the Global South\, the Middle East\, and human rights.
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SUMMARY:Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS) 35th Bauder Lecture with Tracy K. Smith
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nThe Marygrove Conservancy has partnered with PBS Books to present the 35th Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS). Pulitzer Prize-winning poet\, former poet laureate of the United States\, and professor of English and African and African American Studies at Harvard\, Tracy K. Smith\, will read from her award-winning work followed by discussion lead by Nandi Comer\, the Michigan Poet Laureate to discover more about Prof. Smith’s work and legacy.  \nEstablished in 1989\, CAALS is an annual event bringing a nationally known African American author to our campus for a public lecture and class session or conversation. Through generous support the series has remained free and accessible to the community. To date\, over 10\,000 people have attended the Friday night public readings to hear outstanding writers share their work\, and thousands of Detroit area high school and college students as well as others in the Detroit community have studied these works and attended class sessions with guest authors in the series. \nSponsorship of this program has been brought to you by: The Lillian and Don Bauder Foundation\, Michigan Arts and Culture Council\, The National Endowment for the Arts\, and The Kresge Foundation & AARP of Michigan. \nAbout the book:\nTo Free the Captives touches down in Sunflower\, Alabama\, the red-dirt town where Smith’s father’s family comes from\, and where her grandfather returned after World War Iwith a hero’s record but difficult prospects as a Black man. Smith considers his life and the life of her father through the lens of history. Hoping to connect with their strength and continuance\, she assembles a new terminology of American life. \nBearing courageous witness to the terms of Freedom afforded her as a Black woman\, a mother\, and an educator in the twenty-first century\, Smith etches a portrait of where we find ourselves four hundred years into the American experiment. Weaving in an account of her growing spiritual practice\, she argues that the soul is not merely a private site of respite or transcendence\, but a tool for fulfilling our duties to each other\, and a sounding board for our most pressing collective questions: Where are we going as a nation? Where have we been? \nAbout the Author:\nTracy K. Smith\n22nd United States Poet Laureate (2017-2019) & Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University\, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute \nTracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet\, memoirist\, editor\, translator and librettist. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017-19\, during which time she spearheaded American Conversations: Celebrating Poetry in Rural Communities with the Library of Congress\, created the American Public Media podcast The Slowdown\, and edited the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time. \nSmith is the author of five poetry collections: Such Color: New and Selected Poems\, which won the 2022 New England Book Award; Wade in the Water\, which was awarded the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; Life on Mars\, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende\, winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and The Body’s Question\, which received the 2003 Cave Canem Prize. Her memoir\, Ordinary Light\, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in nonfiction. She is the co-translator (with Changtai Bi) of My Name Will Grow Wide like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei\, which was a finalist for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize; and co-editor (with John Freeman) of There’s a Revolution Outside\, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Her memoir-manifesto\, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul\, was a Time magazine and Washington Post Best Book of the Year\, and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. \nAmong Smith’s other honors are the Academy Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets\, the Harvard Arts Medal\, the Columbia Medal for Excellence\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Essence Literary Award. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Philosophical Society. \nShe is a Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University\, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
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