Patricia Smith recently won the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is a Guggenheim fellow, finalist for the Neustadt Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, a former fellow at Civitella Ranieri, Yaddo and MacDowell, a finalist for the 2018 NAACP Image Award in Literature, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. Fish Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the best debut story of the year and was featured in the anthology Best American Mystery Stories. Her contribution to the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir won the Robert L. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Baffler, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Tin House and in Best American Poetry and Best American Essays. Her other books include the poetry volumes Teahouse of the Almighty, Close to Death, Big Towns Big Talk, Life According to Motown the children's book Janna and the Kings and the history Africans in America, a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist and Gotta Go, Gotta Flow, a collaboration ion with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson.

We are thrilled to announce that Patricia Smith will judge the 18 th annual A.

Shoulda been jimi savannah