PEN World Voices Festival: The “Proustian Orgasm” of Memoir and Memory
Michael Ondaatje, Luc Sante, and Tracy K.Smith discussed the memoirs that most influenced their own writing and the prickly task of turning family stories into compelling literature. More
Workshop-Tracy K. Smith: The Weight of Objects
Award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith led a conversation on the role of the image in contemporary poetry, examining how poems use sensory details to distort and enlarge our conventional… More