Patricia Smith

Oct 15, 2024 | poets.org | Idra Novey |Patricia Smith |Fanny Howe |Maggie Smith

Find and share the perfect poems. Under the marked-down dresses, we conjured trips to Oslo. Also to Lima. Mel says the game was my idea, hidingbehind hundreds of hems, inventing trips to cities we knewonly as pleasing arrangements of letters, places we’d likelynever see. Mel says it’s how she remembers me: cross-legged, knottinglengths of licorice, traveling the planet under racks of final sales.

Feb 22, 2024 | poets.org | Alexis Gumbs |Patricia Smith |Pat Parker

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Nov 14, 2023 | southwestreview.com | Patricia Smith

Already 2 p.m. I still haven’t killed the boy. The day, drooped but antsy to unfold, feels like a Tuesday. Tuesday has no real reason to be. It sprints forward in spurts to keep us from noticing. I try not to fixate on the clock—a ticking, grinning google-eyed cat sweeping the room with its glare—but that old flea market find never says a damn thing I want to hear. I am not ready. So I turn to numbing ritual. I must clean my ripening body. I must feed myself.

Nov 9, 2023 | postbulletin.com | Patricia Smith |Loren Else |Thomas Weber |Natalyn Ulwelling

Patricia L. Smith, 91, of Byron/Rochester died 11/6/2023 at Madonna Meadows, Rochester, MN. Pat was born August 28, 1932, in Mantorville, MN to Winfield and Emma (Carlier) Moulton. She graduated from Byron High School in 1950. On August 19, 1950, she married James R. Smith, and they moved to the family farm in Salem Township where they raised 5 daughters. They recently celebrated their 73rd anniversary. Jim and Pat moved to Madonna Meadows, Rochester, MN, in 2022.