We were all in conversation, everybody learning from one another about one another’s work, absorbing and advancing the ...

The volume includes 532 poems, nearly double the number found in 1981’s Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems, the previous ...

Anchal and Daniel are among some 125 undergraduate students selected this year for $10,000 grants to support summer projects ...

Smith College Professor of Mathematics Christophe Golé and three co-authors have been awarded the Mathematical Association of ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

Explore the art of French, engage with its cultures and rediscover your own through others’ perspectives. The Department of French Studies offers about 30 courses in French language, literature and ...

Check out the landing page for the new digital version of the Smith Quarterly. On the Cover This special Spring/Summer 2026 double issue is devoted to Compass 2035, Smith’s new strategic plan. Through ...

Hailed by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers,” Ocean Vuong is a biographer of violence, dislocation, and an immigrant, queer America that carries trauma from other lands, ...

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’s most recent collection—Bluff—interrogates America’s systemic racism, our country’s epidemic of gun violence, the murder of George Floyd, and how the language of poetry might serve as a ...

Juan Felipe Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015-2017—the first Latino to be appointed to the post. Each laureate brings a different focus to his/her tenure. Herrera’s is clear: ...