Patricia Smith doesn’t read
her poetry. She performs it. Her performances fuse poetry and acting into something
distinctly, well, distinctly Patricia
Smith.
Her performances aside (for
the moment), consider her literary accomplishments.
She’s the author of six
collections of poetry: Life
According to Motown (1991); Big
Towns, Big Talk: Poems (1992); Close
to Death (1993); Teahouse
of the Almighty (2006); Blood
Dazzler (2008); and Shoulda
Been Jimi Savannah (2012).
She’s written a children’s book, Janna and the Kings (2003) and is the co-author of Africans in America (1998), the companion book for the television series by WGBH.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
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