Info: Los Angeles's lauded >>>Eating Our Words, hosted by Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Heather Taylor, comes to Miami. Join us at Boater's Grill on Key Biscayne for a traditional Cuban pig roast and poetry reading by Tracy K. Smith! $30/seat ($20/seat for students) includes the pig roast and buffet.
Tracy K. Smith received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard College and Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University from 1997-99. Her first collection of poems, The Body's Question, was awarded the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Kevin Young, and published in 2003 by Graywolf Press. She is the recipient of a 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award, and a 2005 Whiting Award. Her second collection, Duende, received the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and was published by Graywolf Press in 2007. Her third book, Life on Mars, will be published in May 2011. She has taught at the City University of New York, University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University.