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Danez Smith

Danez Smith
Danez Smith is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. They live in Minneapolis. Their latest poetry collection, Homie , is available now from Graywolf.


“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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