At the conclusion of the semester, Hyde and her students collaborated with the librarians at the Hillyer Art Library to adapt ...

Garnett, a government major, doesn’t shy away from difficult conversations. In high school, she successfully took on the ...

Before taking Smith College Associate Professor Alex Barron’s Intro to Environmental Policy course in the fall of her ...

Sometimes the best ideas come together at the very last minute. That was the case for Smith College students Mary Clare ...

Part two of “Women’s Clothes and the Stories They Tell” looks at the laborious undertaking of preparing the collection for its museum debut. The process of curating the Smith College Historic Clothing ...

Danez Smith’s most recent collection—Bluff—interrogates America’s systemic racism, our country’s epidemic of gun violence, the murder of George Floyd, and how the language of poetry might serve as a ...

Natalie Diaz’s poetry is raw, rhythmic, and tender. The New York Times called her debut, When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), an “ambitious… beautiful book.” Pima and Mojave, and an enrolled member of ...

Jamaal May, described by the Boston Review as a “poet as machinist”, writes exquisite paths between the melancholy and the sublime. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, May explores themes of ...

Adrienne Rich‘s life and writings have bravely and eloquently challenged roles, myths, and assumptions for half a century. She has been a fervent activist against racism, sexism, economic injustice, ...

Hailed by Harold Bloom as “a central poet of his generation,” Henri Cole declares that “to write what is human” is his primary goal. At times severe, always attentive, and extremely lyrical, his ...

Cornelius Eady is the author of seven books of poetry and two librettos. Praised for his approachable and simple language, Eady captures the emotional vulnerability of life in a clean, elegant style.

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 ...