It all happens on our players’ stage, and I love that we get to put them on that stage too.” ...

Jay Wright is the author of eight books of poems, including The Homecoming Singer (1971), Dimensions Of History (1976), Selected Poems (1987), and Boleros(1991). In 1996 the Chancellors of the Academy ...

Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf: A Choreo-Poem, with its spectrum of revelatory voices exploring a black woman’s experience, changed the face of ...

With singular force and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt explores relationships between human character and human destiny in meticulously crafted, quietly potent poems that move through autobiography, ...

Meena Alexander has called herself a “woman cracked by multiple migrations.” Born in India, raised in Sudan, educated in England, and currently a resident of New York City, she has drawn on ...

Thanks to Smith’s open curriculum and breadth of classes, it’s easy for students to take sustainability focused courses, no matter their major. Students can pick a major with an environmental focus ...

Winner of both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award for his Selected Poems, and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, Galway Kinnell has been a major figure in American poetry for over four ...

The exhibition will be closed on Thursday, March 13th, as the Alumnae House will not be open to visitors.

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Introduced in 2024, the Smith Office for the Arts (SOFA) presents Smith Arts Day, a daylong celebration of the artistic and creative community at Smith College, bringing the arts together—across ...

John Felstiner‘s career is characterized by the blurred boundaries between scholar and artist. An eminent academic and poet-translator with many prestigious fellowships and awards to his credit, ...

“My job,” poet Jenny George declared in a recent interview, “is the human job of waiting and listening, and language is just what poets use—like wind chimes—to catch the sound of the larger, more ...