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Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy K. Smith to discuss her new book ‘To Free the Captives’
November 16, 2023 @ 7:00 pm–8:00 pm
$35
Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival is thrilled to invite you to an evening with former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet Tracy K. Smith on Thursday November 16 at 7 p.m. Tracy will be live and in person talking about her new book To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, a self-examination study on memory, family, and history, exploring how we might come together to a new view of our shared past.
In 2020, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, Tracy K. Smith found herself soul-searching, and digging into the historical archive for help navigating the “din of human division and strife.” With lyricism and urgency, Smith draws on several avenues of thinking– personal, documentary, and spiritual– to understand who we are as nation and what we might hope to mean to one another
Tickets to hear Tracy K. Smith in person cost $35, and include one signed copy of the book To Free the Captives (value $27). Tracy will be signing books after the discussion. Buy tickets here.
This event will be held in Presentation Hall, The School of Communication and Media, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, 07043. Free parking will be available at the Red Hawk Parking Deck for all event ticket holders.
Tracy K. Smith is a librettist, a translator, and the author of five acclaimed poetry collections, including Life on Mars, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was a finalist for the National Book Award. From 2017 to 2019, she served as the twenty-second Poet Laureate of the United States. She lives in Massachusetts. Photo credit © Andrew Kelly.
Any proceeds from the festival benefit parent organization, Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers free after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education and opportunity gaps in Essex County, NJ. You can read more about Succeed2gether and the festival at www.succeed2gether.org.
