17: Woman on Cell Phone Dragging an Empty Cart Through Washington Square Park

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Woman on Cell Phone Dragging an Empty Cart Through Washington Square Park

some Greek myth. This guy is punished for—

for something, and has to roll a rock up a hill every day

it’s meaningless and we have to just keep

doing it and—the rock, yes, rolling the rock—and that

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Tracy K. Smith is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. She served as the 22nd United States Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019, and is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light and several books of poetry, including her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars. She is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University, and hosts The Slowdown.


Tracy Smith

Today's poem is Woman on Cell Phone Dragging an Empty Cart Through Washington Square Park by Donna Masini.
