Danez Smith burst into national recognition in 2014, when their poems about the Black Lives Matter movement found piercing resonance in a time of social and political change. Smith won the Individual World Poetry Slam that year, as well as the Lamda Literary Award for Gay Poetry for their book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-21 09:49:13 UTC ]
DANEZ SMITH’S LATEST poetry collection, Homie, is actually not titled Homie at all. As the National Book Award finalist confirms point-blank in a note on the title: “this book was titled homie because I don’t want non-black people to say my nig out loud. This book is really titled my nig.”... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-13 18:00:06 UTC ]
Danez Smith has been announced as the winner of the Forward poetry prize for best collection, with awards also going to Phoebe Power and Liz Berry. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chatto & Windus has acquired Danez Smith’s second poetry collection, Don’t Call Us Dead. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]