Patricia Smith (1955) is a poet, spoken word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... A teacher writes on a blackboard in an American college. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...

She was born in Chicago and lives in Westchester County, New York. Honored for her work both on the stage and on the page, she is a four time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award and the National Poetry Series award. Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837  - Mayor... Westchester County is a suburban county with about 940,000 residents located in the U.S. state of New York. ... Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that occurs within a competitive poetry event, called a slam, at which poets perform their own poems (or, in rare cases, those of others) that are judged on a numeric scale by randomly picked members of the audience. ... Carl Sandburg in 1955 Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. ... The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. ...

She gained notoriety when The Boston Globe asked her to resign after editors discovered her work contained fabrications. The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... Fabrication may refer to more than one thing: Fabrication (metal) Semiconductor device fabrication Lie Fiction Fable This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Bibliography

• Fixed on a Furious Star, a biography of Harriet Tubman, coming from Crown in 2007
• Teahouse of the Almighty, selected as a National Poetry Series winner, published in 2006 by Coffee House Press
• Jana 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

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Journalism

• Chicago Sun-Times, 1979-1990.
• Reporter, columnist for The Boston Globe, 1991-1998.
• Won the Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1997.

The Globe later returned the ASNE award and withdrew her from consideration for a Pulitzer Prize after the newspaper acknowledged that some of her columns contained fabricated people, events, and quotes. Smith admitted to four instances in her columns.[1] She was asked to resign from the Globe after this revelation.

• Staff columnist, Ms. magazine, 2000-2002.
• Staff columnist for Afazi.com, a now-defunct online magazine for African-American women, 2000

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See also

• Journalism scandals

Journalism scandals are high-profile incidents or acts, whether intentional or accidental, that run contrary to the generally accepted ethics and standards of journalism, or otherwise violate the ideal mission of journalism: to report news events and issues accurately and fairly. ...

Film/Radio/Television

• Def Poetry Jam featured artist, Season 2 on HBO
• SlamNation, primary cast member in award-winning documentary directed by Paul Devlin
• Undertaker, long-form video of the poem of the same name, produced by San Francisco's Tied to the Track Films, won a Cable Ace Award and an award at the Sundance Film Festival
• Chinese Cucumbers, a short-form video of the poem of the same name, produced by Kurt Heinz, Chicago, and featured in the Word of Motion Festival, Riga, Latvia, and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival
• The Connection, a WBUR-FM Boston radio program hosted by Christopher Lydon, 2002
• Special Coverage, hosted by Tom Ashbrook, with blues band Bop Thunderous, 2002

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Plays

She wrote and performed two one-woman plays:

• Life According to Motown, produced by Nobel Prize-winner Derek Walcott, performed at Trinidad Theater Workshop in Trinidad, Boston University Playwrights Theater, and Company One Theater in Hartford, CT.
• Professional Suicide, produced by The Play Company, New York, NY, directed by Marion McClinton. An earlier version performed at the Women's Studies Consorium of The Fenway Colleges, Boston, and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA.
• Served also as Writer-in-residence, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 2001

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Collaborations with Musicians & Choreographers

• With New York City dance troupe, Urban Bush Women, 2006
• With jazz innovators Bill Cole and the Untempered Ensemble, at St. Mark's Church, New York, 2005; Vision Festival/AvantJazz for Peace, New York, 2005; Steppin Out, Boston, 2004 and Carnegie Hall, New York, 2004
• With avant garde jazz group Paradigm Shift at the Knitting Factory, New York, 2001; Artstuff at Northeastern University 1997-2000; and Lake Festival, Bridgeport, CT, 1997
• With the Jeff Robinson Trio, Lizard Lounge, Boston, Mass, 1996-1998
• With Bob Thunderous, a Boston blues band, numerous appearances including 14th St. Playhouse, Atlanta, and the Jay Liveson Memorial WORD Poetry and Music Festival in the Bronx
• As an opening act with Lollapalooza, various cities, 1994

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Teaching

Worked extensively as a teacher and writing workshop leader at all levels from grade school to universities. A few hightlights:

• Palm Beach Poetry Festival, staff instructor with Billy Collins, Sharon Olds and Thomas Lux, 2005, 2007
• Georgia Tech Bruce McEver Chair in Writing, 2004
• Cave Canem Retreat for African-American Writers staff instructor with Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte, Kwame Dawes, et al., 2004 and 2006.
• American SCORES, worked with Marvin Bell to facilitate literary/poetry workshop for urban teachers, 2004-5
• Lillie C. Evans School, Miami, taught writing and performance during annual residencies in an urban middle school, 1997-1999 and 2006
• Paterson, New Jersey Public Schools led workshops for urban high school students under the auspicies of Passaic County Community College, 1997-2006

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Live Performances

Made hundreds of poetry performances, some solo and some with musical accompaniment, in a wide variety of venues from college theaters to smoky bars. A few examples:

• African Heritage Festival, Schomburg Center 75th Anniversary, New York
• Palm Beach Poetry Festival
• Rotterdam Poetry International Festival
• Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival
• Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
• Aran Islands International Poetry and Prose Festival, National University of Ireland
• Asheville Poetry Festival
• Tucson Poetry Festival
• Festival Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
• Taos Poetry Circus
• Expo 90, Osaka, Japan
• University of Michigan
• University of Arizona
• Harvard University Law School
• Bowdoin College
• Smith College
• University of Stockholm
• La Sorbonne, Paris

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External links

• About Patricia Smith
• The Book of Voices
• Secrets And Lies
• Modern American Poetry: Patricia Smith
• http://wordwoman.ws/
• The Academy of American Poets - Patricia Smith
• Patricia Smith's Virtual Reality
• Sample Newspaper Columns by Patricia Smith
• Patricia Smith, Journalism & Poetry: Shall we meditate on Truth?
• Boston Globe columnist resigns, accused of fabrications
• The American Society of Newspaper Editors withdraws award to Globe columnist Patricia Smith