2014 Bobbitt Prize Winner
Patricia Smith is the author of multiple books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (2016), winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the 2018 NAACP Image Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (2012), winner of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (2008); and Teahouse of the Almighty, a 2005 National Poetry Series selection. Smith also published the critically acclaimed history Africans in America (1999) and the award-winning children’s book Janna and the Kings (2003). She is a Guggenheim fellow, a Civitellian, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, recipient of a Lannan fellowship, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam. Smith is a Distinguished Professor for the City University of New York and an instructor in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada University and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program.
Videos with Patricia Smith
- Bobbitt Prize Reading: Patricia Smith (2015)
- Necessary Utterance: Poetry as Cultural Force—Poets Reading (2013)
- 2009 National Book Festival: Patricia Smith