Tracy Smith
Tracy Smith
Tracy K. Smithis an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2011 collection, Life on Mars. About this collection, Joel Brouwer wrote in 2011: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition. ... As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled."...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1972
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It's a great first step, and it can only get better. It's a way to spark doing nice things for others within these kids. It's increasing the awareness of being kind and putting forth an extra effort.
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It's all about confidence in ourselves and being confident in who we are as a team. If we can accomplish that, I think we'll be fine this weekend and this season.
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There's always an element of surprise associated with it.
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It was a well-played ball game; it came down to them getting a key hit. We didn't get the key hit and didn't make the plays. I'm proud of Clint, he kept us in there and gave us a chance to win.
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That is a problem that all toll roads in this country share.
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A lot of teams would kill to pound out 13 hits like we did tonight. It's a shame it went to waste because we can't catch the ball.
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We're hoping that this will help with communication with staff, students and very much so with the parents.
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We're battling, we're just not getting over the hump. We just need to get that big hit or make that big play.
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We're going to primarily rest our starting pitchers and give some guys a chance who haven't had a lot of opportunities to stake a claim for some more innings out of the bullpen. I anticipate Butler will be taking the same approach.
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Faith is the only thing we have right now.
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We can't use it as an excuse. We have to be tough enough to overcome that (the games are on the road).
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To me there is no solace in one-run losses. Good teams win close games, and we have go to start winning them.
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Our preparation and focus is to get ready for the Big Ten. Our record is 0-0 in the conference and that's our mentality right now.
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