The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative

Protégée Tracy K. Smith

The opportunity to step outside of my own cultural context would be invaluable to my work.”

2010/2011

Poetry Reading, Munich

December 2010

In June 2010 Tracy K. Smith spent a month in Munich, the home of her mentor Hans Magnus Enzensberger. While getting to know one another, each of them read from a favourite poem for the camera.

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In this video: Tracy K. Smith reads her poem The Universe as Primal Scream.

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In this video: Hans Magnus Enzensberger reads an excerpt from his book of meditations, A History of Clouds, published in April 2010.