Toi Derricotte Reads Tracy K. Smith

Toi Derricotte joins Kevin Young (newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young) to read “We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On (newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/we-feel-now-…),” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “I give in to an old desire (newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/i-give-in-to…).” Derricotte is a poet, memoirist, and co-founder, with Cornelius Eady, of the literary organization Cave Canem. Her honors include the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and the Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement; in 2020, she received the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal, for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.

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