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 ...

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 5-6:30 a.m.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 5-6:30 a.m.

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 ...

Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf: A Choreo-Poem, with its spectrum of revelatory voices exploring a black woman’s experience, changed the face of ...

Danez Smith is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead, a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award which circles their Black, queer, and HIV positive status. At once haunted, sensual, explosive and ...

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 ...

Mittie Jordan currently serves as a trustee and community mission and ministry chair for St. Matthew United Methodist Church in Cleveland, which leads the development of Brookdale Orchard, an urban ...

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 ...

Local poet Susan Snively, who is the director of the Writing Center at Amherst College and teaches courses in writing and women’s autobiographies, has published three collections of poems: From This ...

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 ...

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 ...