Tracy K. Smith, Feb. 17, 2018, Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series, Thirteenth Season, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Emory University Tracy K. Smith, 22nd US poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, gives a reading of her poems, as part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, “Ordinary Light,” and three books of poetry. Her collection “Life on Mars” won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as New York Times Notable Book. The collection is partly a tribute to her late father, an engineer who worked on the Hubble Telescope. “Duende” won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and an Essence Literary Award. “The Body’s Question” was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith’s reading at Emory is part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series, now in its 13th season. Smith is the seventh U.S. poet laureate to be featured in the series, and the 31th reader overall.