The importance of shopping small is heavily emphasized during the holiday season, and both the Smith and local Northampton ...

Once the chocolate has cooled, use gel food coloring to draw on the eyes, nose, and mouth, and you’re good to go!

We are pleased to provide you with a progress report on Smith’s strategic planning activities to date. Thank you to all of you who have participated in this important process thus far. More than 300 ...

On a recent afternoon at the Southampton Road Elementary School in Westfield, Mass., three Smith students and a handful of fourth graders are absorbed in the happy chaos of a robotics challenge.

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Nancy Morejón is the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba. Born in 1944 in Havana to a militant dock worker and a trade-unionist seamstress, Morejón graduated ...

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 ...

Jamaal May, described by the Boston Review as a “poet as machinist”, writes exquisite paths between the melancholy and the sublime. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, May explores themes of ...

Danez Smith is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead, a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award which circles their Black, queer, and HIV positive status. At once haunted, sensual, explosive and ...

Jay Wright is the author of eight books of poems, including The Homecoming Singer (1971), Dimensions Of History (1976), Selected Poems (1987), and Boleros(1991). In 1996 the Chancellors of the Academy ...