Katrina
Patricia Smith, “Katrina [I was birthed restless and everywhere]” from Blood Dazzler. Copyright © 2008 by Patricia Smith. Reprinted by permission of Coffee House Press. www.coffeehousepress.org
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Poet Patricia Smith b. 1955
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Patricia Smith, who has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives,” is the author of five books of poetry, including Blood Dazzler (2008), a chronicle of the human and environmental cost of Hurricane Katrina and nominated for a National Book Award, and Teahouse of the Almighty, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection published by Coffee House Press. Her poems have been published in The Paris Review and . . .
Poems by Patricia Smith
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POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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