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This is the political scene, and I'm David Remnick.

Now, you might think that 2017 was an inauspicious time to become the poet laureate.

The country was still reeling from the most divisive

election in memory, at least until the next one. So what was poetry going to do about it? All the while,

Tracy K. Smith decided not to keep a low profile. When she was appointed poet laureate, she wanted

to engage with the American people, as many of us as she possibly could.

Smith appeared in front of audiences everywhere from senior homes to prisons.

She estimates that she traveled one to two nights per week for two years, and at the same time, she put together a collection of topical poems called American Journal that she read from while on the road.

Here's Tracy K. Smith reading one of those poems by Joy Harjo, a poet from the Muskogee Creek Nation,

who also succeeded Tracy as Poet Laureate. The poem's title is simply, No.

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