The Poet Laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize winner for Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith gathers here a remarkable chorus of 50 voices that ring up and down the registers of American poetry. Presenting poems that honor elders, evoke history, and praise our efforts to see and understand one another, here are contemporary works by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Joy Harjo, Cathy Park Hong, Marie Howe, Ilya Kaminsky, Ada Límon, Layli Long Soldier, Erika L. Sánchez, Solmaz Sharif, Natasha Trethewey, and Charles Wright.