Reading: Tracy K. Smith

This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet reads from Ordinary Light, her new memoir that explores questions about faith, black identity, and her strong bond with her devout Alabama-born mother. “Full of flashes of insight and passages that could be poems, this is the kind of keeper memoir … [you read] to illuminate your own understanding of the world, our country, our communities, our selves,” says writer Julia Alvarez. Signing.