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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
Patricia Smith reads her
CSI Graduation Poem
Spring 2020

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)
“Incendiary Art: The Body” and “Sagas of the Accidental Saint” (excerpt)
Listen here:
“Building Nicole’s Mama”
“The Five Stages of Drowning”
Interviews with Patricia Smith