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Danez Smith

Danez Smith
Danez Smith is the author of four collections including Don’t Call Us Dead, Homie, and, most recently, Bluff. For their work, Danez was won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez lives in Minneapolis with their people.


“relativity,” a poem by Danez Smith

In Celebration of the 20th Dodge Poetry Festival
October 15, 2024  By Danez Smith
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“Last Black American Poem,” a Poem by Danez Smith

From the Collection “Bluff”
August 20, 2024  By Danez Smith
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“self-portrait as ’90s R&B video”

From Danez Smith's Collection, Homie
January 21, 2020  By Danez Smith
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“i’m sick of pretending to give a shit about what whypeepo think”

A Poem From Danez Smith, Who Has Just Won the UK's Forward Prize
September 21, 2018  By Danez Smith
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Danez Smith: “Oh I want to eat this poem.”

From the Introduction to Britteney Black Rose Kapri's Black Queer Hoe
September 17, 2018  By Danez Smith
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Three New Poems by Danez Smith

October 11, 2017  By Danez Smith
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dear white america: A Poem by Danez Smith

"i've left Earth in search of darker planets"
September 5, 2017  By Danez Smith
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what was said on the bus stop: a new poem by Danez Smith

"i love & have cried for my friends / their browns a different brown than mine"
April 17, 2017  By Danez Smith
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What He left us

On discovering Amiri Baraka reading on 'Def Poetry'
April 20, 2015  By Danez Smith
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