Before taking Smith College Associate Professor Alex Barron’s Intro to Environmental Policy course in the fall of her ...

Sometimes the best ideas come together at the very last minute. That was the case for Smith College students Mary Clare ...

Part two of “Women’s Clothes and the Stories They Tell” looks at the laborious undertaking of preparing the collection for its museum debut. The process of curating the Smith College Historic Clothing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Cohen's fields of interests include empirical logic, quantum theory, the application of logic, analysis and algebra to physics and the mathematical education of nonmathematicians. The goal of ...

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 ...

Lucille Clifton is one of the most beloved and respected figures in American poetry today. A major voice since her publishing debut in 1969, she has continued to portray the experiences of being an ...

Adrienne Rich‘s life and writings have bravely and eloquently challenged roles, myths, and assumptions for half a century. She has been a fervent activist against racism, sexism, economic injustice, ...

John Felstiner‘s career is characterized by the blurred boundaries between scholar and artist. An eminent academic and poet-translator with many prestigious fellowships and awards to his credit, ...

How are you involved with the Jandon Center? For the past two years I have been the Kensington Fellow, coordinating a mentorship program that matches dedicated Smithies one-to-one with elementary ...