Mini Tapes: Guidance from the Afterlife @ChicagoHumanitiesFestival
Mini Tapes: Guidance from the Afterlife  @ChicagoHumanitiesFestival
Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Today’s bonus episode brings us Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith in conversation with Parneshia Jones, the Director of Northwestern University Press. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, shares of the times she looked to her ancestors for guidance - or rather, how they found her.

Show notes and transcript: chicagohumanities.org/media/podcast-mt-smith

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Mini Tapes: Guidance from the Afterlife

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