The Lewis Global Studies Center Global Encounters Photo contest provides a venue for Smith students to share their global experiences with the Smith community. All Smith students are encouraged to ...

In September of 1875, Smith College opened its doors to 14 students and six faculty members. Ever since then, we’ve been pushing the world forward in profound ways. Smith—and Smithies—have been a ...

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 ...

The Smith College Sophian called Lenelle Moïse ’04 “a slam-style poet, playwright, actor, author and queer feminist [who] fuses issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and politics.” Moïse, who ...

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 ...

Mittie Jordan currently serves as a trustee and community mission and ministry chair for St. Matthew United Methodist Church in Cleveland, which leads the development of Brookdale Orchard, an urban ...

for me because I haven’t done it consistently (not at all, sorry), but I want to recommend that we stop apologizing. Today I counted and I said I’m sorry approximately 22 times. I apologized for my ...

Mary Ruefle is a poet of visionary imagination, in love with the world and the power of art. She sees the strange in the ordinary and vice versa. She weaves them together by way of wild association, ...

During the summer of 2021, I worked together with staff from CEEDS and other students to create both a tangible space where students can access new and recycled material resources for free and an ...

Through an internship in Northampton’s Office of Planning and Sustainability, I worked on the city’s climate resiliency plan. My role was coordinating public engagement for the planning process. I ...

Paula O'Loughlin is presently the provost and senior vice president for academic and student affairs at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She also currently serves in a leadership role on ...

Anne Marie Macari is a questioner, a truth-seeker, a modern soothsayer. Reading her poems, writes Jean Valentine, “I think of Jane Kenyon, in her kindred humor, quietness, fierceness, and plain ...