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Patricia Smith

Patricia Smith (website)

Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, CUNY

Winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Incendiary Art

2018 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Patricia Smith reads her

CSI Graduation Poem

Spring 2020

Patricia Smith, for CSI English major graduates, spring 2020


Incendiary Art

Patricia Smith reads from Incendiary Art

Read “Incendiary Art” (listen in above video 0:00-3:09)

Read: “That Chile Emmett in That Casket” (listen in above video at 13:11-16:25)


Read these poems:

Incendiary Art: The Body” and “Sagas of the Accidental Saint” (excerpt)

Listen here:


“Building Nicole’s Mama”

“Building Nicole’s Mama”

“The Five Stages of Drowning”


Interviews with Patricia Smith