Former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith's 'plea for the American soul' - a podcast by WBUR & NPR

The former U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith has a new memoir. In it, she discovers a surprise in her late father’s military records that changed how she sees herself as a Black woman in America.

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