Tracy K. Smith reads from her essay collection Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (2025), alternating between the book's prose and recent poems. These recent poems come from Such Color: New and Selected Poems (2021) and from an unpublished manuscript titled The Forest. Smith describes poetry as an intervention amidst the rise of de-humanizing values and as a response that invites us to recognize the humanity in one another.
Smith, Tracy K. Such Color: New and Selected Poems. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021. Originally appeared in Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018).
Differs from published version.
Smith, Tracy K. Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times. New York: W.W. Norton, 2025, pp 1, 3-4.
Untitled.
Uncollected.
Differs from published version.
Smith, Tracy K. Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times. New York: W.W. Norton, 2025, pp 31-32.
Published version bears the title "Season in the Dark."
Smith, Tracy K. "Season in the Dark." The New Republic, 20 November 2025. Web. Accessed 20 November 2025.
Smith, Tracy K. "Te recuerdo, Amanda." The Southern Review, vol. 61, no. 3, Summer 2025, pp. 484-485.
Smith, Tracy K. Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times. New York: W.W. Norton, 2025, pp 91-92.
Smith, Tracy K. Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times. New York: W.W. Norton, 2025, pg. 94. Originally appeared in Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018).
Differs from published version.
Smith, Tracy K. Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times. New York: W.W. Norton, 2025, pp. 95-96.
Uncollected.
