The Lewis Global Studies Center Global Encounters Photo contest provides a venue for Smith students to share their global experiences with the Smith community. All Smith students are encouraged to ...

Join the Ivy Day festivities—virtually! Watch the webcast beginning at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, May 18. Ai-jen Poo—an activist and social innovator whose groundbreaking leadership on domestic workers’ ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Nancy Morejón is the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba. Born in 1944 in Havana to a militant dock worker and a trade-unionist seamstress, Morejón graduated ...

Jay Wright is the author of eight books of poems, including The Homecoming Singer (1971), Dimensions Of History (1976), Selected Poems (1987), and Boleros(1991). In 1996 the Chancellors of the Academy ...

Natalie Diaz’s poetry is raw, rhythmic, and tender. The New York Times called her debut, When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), an “ambitious… beautiful book.” Pima and Mojave, and an enrolled member of ...

Gwendolyn Brooks has been a leading force in American letters for decades. Her poetry, writes Adrienne Rich, “holds up a mirror to the American experience entire, its dreams, self-delusions and ...

Jamaal May, described by the Boston Review as a “poet as machinist”, writes exquisite paths between the melancholy and the sublime. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, May explores themes of ...

Cornelius Eady is the author of seven books of poetry and two librettos. Praised for his approachable and simple language, Eady captures the emotional vulnerability of life in a clean, elegant style.

Through an internship in Northampton’s Office of Planning and Sustainability, I worked on the city’s climate resiliency plan. My role was coordinating public engagement for the planning process. I ...

Smith has been a great place to explore and connect my disparate interests. While I am a computer science major, the environmental concentration has given me the opportunity to work with several ...

from AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN (Penguin, 2018) ...