Tracy K. Smith love is a language / Few practice, but all, or near all speak
b'The U.S. Poet Laureate. \\u201cThere\\u2019s this whole other narrative unfolding.\\u201d How history \\u201cwhich once felt so remote, feels closer and active and unresolved.\\u201d Listening for the spaces that are under-imagined. \\u201cLittle leaps of imagination\\u201d that can restore us.\\nTracy K. Smith has a deep interest in \\u201cthe kind of silence that yields clarity\\u201d and \\u201cthe way our voices sound when we dip below the decibel level of politics.\\u201d She\\u2019s a welcome voice on the little leaps of the imagination that can restore us. She\\u2019s spent the past year traversing our country, listening for all of this and drawing it forth as the U.S. Poet Laureate. Krista spoke with her at the invitation of New York\\u2019s B\\u2019nai Jeshurun synagogue, which has been in communal exploration on creating a just and redeemed social fabric.\\nTracy K. Smith is the 22nd United States Poet Laureate and the director of Princeton University\\u2019s creative writing program. Her works of poetry include include \\u201cWade in the Water,\\u201d \\u201cLife on Mars,\\u201d and \\u201cDuende.\\u201d Her memoir is \\u201cOrdinary Light.\\u201d She\\u2019s written the introduction to a new book, \\u201cAmerican Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time,\\u201d and she\\u2019s launching a new podcast called The Slowdown.\\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.'