Smith College student Chloe Dyehouse ’28’s work with native shrub plants in Rhode Island will greatly expand data on climate ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Who are the Smithies in the class of 2030? Check out some of the data on our newest group of students. All data is for students entering in the fall of 2026 as of July 15, 2026. The enrolling class is ...

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 ...

James Tate was a 23-year-old graduate student when he won the Yale Series of Younger Poet’s award for The Lost Pilot. A dozen subsequent collections have established him as one of the foremost ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...