Do you know who your national poet laureate is?

•  If not, now’s your chance to meet Tracy K. Smith. She says in her interview with The Believer:

In the twenty-first century, when our lives are full of distractions and sales pitches, I think poetry is a vitally rehumanizing force, something that can pull our relationship with language away from the vocabulary of the commercial marketplace and back toward the realm of genuine thought and feeling.