"Declaration" was initially published in 2018 as a part of author Tracy K. Smith's poetry collection Wade in the Water. "Declaration" is told from the perspective of an African American taken captive aboard a pirate ship on the high seas.

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"Ghazal" is a historical poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was published in the Wade in the Water collection by Graywolf Press in 2018. The collection won the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was nominated for the 2018 Forward Prizes for...

"Sci-Fi" is a poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was included in the Life on Mars collection published in 2011 by Graywolf Press. The collection is a lament for the poet's father, who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope at the National...

“The Universe as a Primal Scream” is a poem by Tracy K. Smith which appears in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars. Conceived as a tribute to the author’s father who had worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the collection is...