Patricia Smith with her National Book Award-Winning poetry collection, The Intentions of Thunder

We are honored to host Patricia Smith for a program at The NewSouth Bookstore, a talk about and reading from her 2025 National Book Award-winning book, The Intentions of Thunder. Smith is a poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, and writing teacher, whose work has been called life-changing, “abundant, brilliant, and unprecedented.” Don’t miss her Montgomery appearance!