Adrianna Smith

Adrianna Smith is a writer based in Washington, D.C. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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What Tracy K. Smith Sees in America

In her latest collection, Wade in the Water, the U.S. poet laureate takes a loving and unflinching look at a country’s present and past.
- Adrianna Smith
- June 9, 2018
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One Hundred Poems That Capture the Meaning of Joy

Christian Wiman’s new anthology brings together an admirable range of meditations on an emotion whose place in the world today can seem uncertain.
- Adrianna Smith
- November 30, 2017