Fear Less

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world
Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate T ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world
Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterised as “inaccessible”, “irrelevant” or “intimidating”. She argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to love, dream, question and engage across diverse cultures and backgrounds. Lifting the veil on her own creative process, Smith shows us how reading and writing poetry allows us