News at Eleven: Tracy K. Smith's father worked on the Hubble

space telescope. Came home bursting with pride when Hubble unveiled the universe.

Little did he know his daughter would be such a poet. That she would run and run with those images. Out to the ends of the cosmos. In to the heart of human joy and grief.

Tracy Smith's new collection is called "Life on Mars". It takes us far away, and very close to home. "We are part of it," she writes of the universe and its mysteries. "Not guests."

from 90.9 WBUR: On Point: Poet Tracy K. Smith: Life On Mars

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