Forum From the Archives: Former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Urges Us to 'Fear Less'
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 1:09.4 | If you've ever doubted you could enjoy poetry, appreciate poetry, think with poetry, |
| 1:14.6 | let me introduce Tracy K. Smith, the Harvard Professor and Pulitzer Prize winning poet. |
| 1:20.6 | Today she's here in her role as lover of poetry, love in the sense of appreciation, |
| 1:25.6 | but also in the sense of deep knowing and |
| 1:27.8 | respect and intense attraction. Her new book is called Fearless, Poetry for Periless |
| 1:33.8 | Times. And it proves that nobody can take apart and put together a poem quite like Tracy |
| 1:39.0 | K. Smith. She's out here making Emily Dickinson sing again, sing for us. She's exploring Joy Harjo's amazing poem. |
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