Described as “the real deal” by the Co-editor of Latino Boom, Aracelis Girmay is a powerful, inventive poet, writer, and educator who is not afraid to take on any subject, including rape and genocide, ...

Proclaimed a “gifted and courageous poet” by Eavan Boland, Jill McDonough is a brilliant and lively presence on the poetry scene. Her first book, Habeas Corpus, offers a sequence of fifty sonnets, ...

Spencer Reece “has something of Bishop’s passion for detail, her scrupulousness, and something of Lowell’s genius for fixing character in gesture…the wild, inexhaustible fertility of his comparisons ...

The Smith College Sophian called Lenelle Moïse ’04 “a slam-style poet, playwright, actor, author and queer feminist [who] fuses issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and politics.” Moïse, who ...

Marie Howe sees her work as an act of confession, conversation, prayer. She says simply, “Poetry is telling something to someone.” According to the distinguished poet Stanley Kunitz, Howe’s “telling” ...

It all happens on our players’ stage, and I love that we get to put them on that stage too.” ...

Today, Smith students have reignited the drive for selecting a new moniker and mascot—a process begun several years ago but ...

Translation is that space where language, culture, history, politics and incommensurable difference all collide and sometimes cohere to make sense. At a time of intensive globalization, when cultures ...

Arouna was selected as a Schwarzman Scholar from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants—the largest in the program’s 10-year ...

The Fellowships & Postgraduate Scholarships Program supports Smith students and recent alums who want to apply for national and international fellowships and scholarships. Our approach revolves around ...

Lecture: 1–2 p.m. | Tea: 2–3 p.m. Smith President Sarah Willie-LeBreton and Northampton Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra ’96 will host “150 years later—Smith + Northampton: A History of the College’s ...