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Tracy K. Smith is your new US poet laureate

Tracy K. Smith, the 45-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, has been named the new United States poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced on Wednesday.

In a statement on Wednesday, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said that it gave her “great pleasure” to appoint Smith, “a poet of searching,” to the position.

Hayden went on to praise Smith’s work, saying that it “travels the world and takes on its voices; brings history and memory to life; calls on the power of literature as well as science, religion and pop culture.”

Smith is the 22nd poet to hold the position, officially titled the “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the United States,” NPR reported on Wednesday. She succeeds Juan Felipe Herrera, who has spent two yearlong terms as the poet laureate. Read more (6/14/17)

Watch 12-Year-Old Kanye West Perform His Original Poem About Martin Luther King, Jr.

It’s absolutely clear this kid is going places! His poem is even better when you hear the way he recites it, even as a 12-year-old.

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