In June 2017, Smith was named U.S. poet laureate. Would go half-dome, shades dropped I see them differently now, these photographs, that is. is, inexplicably, the first of her three collections to be published in the UK. She was the Poem-a-Day Guest Editor for April 2019 and 2018, and the director of Princeton Universitys creative writing program. She teaches at Harvard University, where she is a professor of English and of African and African American Studies
Let's Read! She'd rest one elbow, On the tablethe opposite one to the bent leg. Many of the recollections rendered in it are deceptively simple. In "Dusk," a brilliantly honest mother-daughter poem, we see the moment when a child becomes that "solid self-centered self" who would "trust no one but herself." Many parents can identify with those painful moments, when [ ] even though we were together, her eyes Would go half-dome, shades dropped Like a screen at some cinema the old aren't [CDATA[// >