A former US Poet Laureate has told FRANCE 24 how we should stop making poems feel like puzzles, and instead embrace them as a way to help us in our perilous times. Tracy K. Smith is now a Harvard professor and the author of five poetry collections, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Life on Mars". Her book "Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times", is being discussed here in Paris this Tuesday. She spoke to us in Perspective.
'Poems help me wrestle with my fears': Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith
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Tue 12:33 - France 24
'Poems help me wrestle with my fears': Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith