Patricia Smith (poet)

Patricia Smith (born 1955 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist. She has published poems in literary magazines and journals including TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, and in anthologies including American Voices and The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. She is on the faculties of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Sierra Nevada College.

She is a four-time individual National Poetry Slam champion and appeared in the 1996 documentary SlamNation, which followed various poetry slam teams as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon.

She is married to Bruce DeSilva, journalist and Edgar Award-winning author. She currently lives in Howell, New Jersey.

Work

Her poetry has appeared in major literary journals including The Paris Review and TriQuarterly, and dozens of anthologies, including The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade.

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Patricia Smith (actress)

Patricia Smith (February 20, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress who appeared in film and television roles from the early 1950s through the 1990s.

Career

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Smith appeared in a 1953 episode of Kraft Television Theater titled "A Room and a Half". A Neighborhood Playhouse alumna and a life member of The Actors Studio, Smith appeared in two films in 1957, The Bachelor Party with Don Murray and The Spirit of St. Louis with James Stewart. She appeared in Gunsmoke in 1958.

She appeared primarily on television during the 1960s and 1970s, including the role of murderer Wanda Buren in the 1965 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Candy Queen," and the role of Sylvia Bayles in The Twilight Zone episode Long Distance Call (Season 2 - episode 22); as Norma Bartlett in The Fugitive episode "Goodbye my Love" in 1967, and was the focus of Hawaii Five-O's second show of the first season (1968), "Full Fathom Five", playing detective Joyce Weber. Smith's character went undercover to capture a husband/wife serial killer team targeting rich widows. She also appeared in a 1975 episode of The Streets of San Francisco. Smith was a regular on the 1969-70 short-lived television sitcom The Debbie Reynolds Show playing Reynolds' sister Charlotte. She also had a recurring role on The Bob Newhart Show during its initial season (1972–1973), played Jack Lemmon's wife in the 1973 feature film Save the Tiger, for which Lemmon won an Oscar, and appeared in the episode "You're Not Alone" from the 1977 anthology series Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected (known in the United Kingdom as Twist in the Tale). She also appeared in the TV serie "Highway to Heaven", in the saison 1 episode 18 "A Child of God".