Patricia Smith (poet) - Bibliography

Bibliography

• Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah - poems about the second wave of the Great Migration, published in 2012 by Coffee House Press
• Blood Dazzler - poems about Hurricane Katrina, Coffee House Press, 2008, a National Book Award finalist.
• Teahouse of the Almighty - selected as a National Poetry Series winner, published in 2006 by Coffee House Press
• Janna and the Kings - 2003, Lee & Low, winner of the New Voices Award for new children's book authors
• Africans in America - history, companion book to the PBS television series of the same name, Harcourt Brace, 1998 (co-authored with Charles Johnson)
• Close to Death - poetry, 1993, Zoland Books
• Big Towns, Big Talk - poetry, 1992, Zoland Books
• Life According to Motown - poetry, 1991, Tía Chucha Press
• Her poetry has appeared in major literary journals including The Paris Review and TriQuarterly, and dozens of anthologies, including The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade.
• She has read her poetry at prestigious venues all over the world, including the Poets Stage in Stockholm, Urban Voices in South Africa, Rotterdam’s Poetry International Festival, the Aran Islands International Poetry and Prose Festival and on tour in Germany, Austria and Holland. In the U.S., she’s performed at the National Book Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Dodge Poetry Festival.
• The book Blood Dazzler was the basis for a dance/theater production which sold out a week-long series of performances at New York’s Harlem Stage.
• A selection of her poetry was produced as a one-woman play by Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott and performed at both Boston University Playwrights Theater and the historic Trinidad Theater Workshop.
• Another play, based on Life According to Motown, was staged by Company One Theater in Hartford, Ct., and reviewed favorably in The New York Times.