Patricia Smith

Awarded July 11, 2024

Poetry Collections
Life According to Motown (1991)
Big Towns, Big Talk (1992)
Close to Death (1993)
Teahouse of the Almighty (2006)
Blood Dazzler (2008)
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (2012)
Incendiary Art: Poems (2017)
Unshuttered (2023)

Non-fiction
Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery, co-authored with Charles Johnson (1998)

Children’s books
Janna and the Kings (2003)

Theatre
Professional Suicide (a one-woman show)
Life According to Motown (a play featuring a selection of poems)

Other
Editor of the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir (2012)
Gotta Go Gotta Flow: Life, Love, and Lust on Chicago’s South Side, co-
authored with photographer Michael Abramson (2015)
Co-editor of The Golden Shovel Anthology–New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn
Brooks (2017)
Crowns, co-authored with photographer Sandro Miller (2021)
Death in the Desert, co-authored with photographer Sandro Miller (2021).