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Danez Smith is a poet, writer and performer from St. Paul , Minnesota .[1] [2] They are queer , non-binary and HIV-positive . They are the author of the poetry collections [insert] Boy and Don't Call Us Dead: Poems , both of which have received multiple awards.[3] Their most recent poetry collection Homie was published on January 21, 2020.[4]
Early life and education [ edit ]
Smith was born in St. Paul, Minnesota,[5] and attended Saint Paul Central High School .[6] They grew up with their mother and grandparents in the Selby Neighborhood.[7] Their family is from Mississippi and Georgia .[8]
Smith has said that they struggled with reading up until the third grade.[7] A teacher told them that being able to read would allow them to read video-game magazines, which inspired Smith.[7]
Smith was a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , graduating with a BA in 2012.[9] [10]
Smith is a founding member of Dark Noise Collective [11] with Fatimah Asghar , Franny Choi , Nate Marshall , Aaron Samuels, and Jamila Woods .[12]
With Jamila Woods , Smith joined Macklemore for a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in February, 2016.[13] Their writing has been published in Poetry (magazine) and Ploughshares .[5] On March 30, 2017, Smith was the inaugural guest of the Alexander Lawrence Posey Speaker Series at the University of Central Oklahoma .[14]
Smith is the author of three books. [insert] Boy won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry ,[15] with jurist Chase Twitchell describing Smith's poetry as "remarkable for its nervy, surprising, morally urgent poems."[16] [insert] Boy was also selected as a Boston Globe Best Poetry Book in 2014.[17] Smith's second book, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems , was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for poetry .[18] Their third book, Homie , was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.[4] Smith is also the author of two chapbooks , hands on ya knees (2013, Penmanship Books) and black movie (2015, Button Poetry ), winner of the Button Poetry Prize .
Smith has twice been a finalist in Individual World Poetry Slam .[16] They were a finalist in 2011[19] and placed second in 2014.[20]
With Franny Choi , Smith is co-host of the poetry podcast VS from the Poetry Foundation .[21]
Smith won a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts grant.[22]
In 2018, Smith's sonnet sequence "summer, somewhere" received the inaugural Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America .[23] At age 29, Smith also became the youngest recipient of the £10,000 Forward Prize for best poetry collection, as Don't Call Us Dead beat out works by U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith and former Forward winner Vahni Capildeo .[24] Smith serves on the board of directors for the D.C.-based poetry non-profit Split This Rock .[25]
In 2020, Smith published a third poetry collection called Homie .[26] [27] Homie won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry.[28]
Personal life [ edit ]
Smith is genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns.[24]
"poem where I be & you just might" (Poetry Society of America )[29]
"Dinosaurs in the Hood" (Poetry , December 2014)[30]
"the bullet was a girl" (Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets , September 3, 2015)[31]
"Principles" (video from Brave New Voices Festival , July 2016)[32]
"You're Dead, America" (BuzzFeed , November 9, 2016)[33]
"C.R.E.A.M." (Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets , February 1, 2017)[34]
"Don't Try Us" (Fader , May 1, 2017)[35]
Selection from "summer, somewhere" (The New York Times , June 9, 2017)[36]
Chapbooks [ edit ]
hands on ya knees (2013, Penmanship Books)
black movie (2015, Button Poetry ) ISBN 978-1-943735-00-6
In Anthology [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "Bio" . Danez Smith. Poet . Retrieved September 20, 2017 .
^ Stewart, Chris (April 16, 2018). "Nonbinary Poet Danez Smith Is Winning Awards — And Our Hearts" . them . Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
^ "Danez Smith" . National Book Foundation . Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
^ a b "Homie" . Graywolf Press . Retrieved July 21, 2021 .
^ a b "Danez Smith" . Poetry Foundation . Poetry Foundation. September 19, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .{{cite web }}
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^ "St. Paul poet Danez Smith shines in the national spotlight" . Minnesota Public Radio . September 14, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
^ a b c Hertzel, Laurie (September 15, 2017). "Impassioned Twin Cities poet Danez Smith is a troubadour for our turbulent times" . Star Tribune . Retrieved October 25, 2020 .
^ "The Conversation: Cortney Lamar Charleston and Danez Smith" . The Rumpus . March 26, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
^ "Bio" . Danez Smith. Poet . Retrieved March 14, 2018 .
^ Allen, John (November 30, 2017). "Danez Smith: A Poet Finding Freedom through Language" . Wisconsin Alumni Association . Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
^ "Dark Noise Collective" . Dark Noise Collective . Archived from the original on April 8, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
^ "Dark Noise: Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, Danez Smith & Jamila Woods" . Poetry Foundation . April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
^ Grow, Kory (February 9, 2016). "See Macklemore Perform Jazzy 'White Privilege' on 'Colbert' " . Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on March 12, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
^ "Alexander Lawrence Posey Speaker Series" . University of Central Oklahoma . New Plains Student Publishing, University of Central Oklahoma. Retrieved June 1, 2017 .
^ a b LaBerge, Peter (September 22, 2015). "[REVIEW] [insert] boy, by Danez Smith - [PANK]" . [PANK] . Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
^ a b "Poet Ross Gay wins Claremont's $100,000 Tufts prize" . San Diego Union Tribune . Associated Press. March 2, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
^ Share, Don (December 10, 2014). "Best poetry books of 2014 - The Boston Globe" . BostonGlobe.com . Retrieved October 25, 2020 .
^ "2017 National Book Award finalists revealed" . CBS News . October 4, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
^ Calello, Monique (October 10, 2016). "Slam poet Danez Smith to perform at Bridgewater" . The News Leader . Retrieved October 25, 2020 .
^ Segal, Corinne (November 16, 2015). "Poet Danez Smith issues a wake-up call to white America" . PBS NewsHour . Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
^ "Introducing VS Podcast: Where Poets Confront the Ideas That Move Them by Franny Choi, Danez Smith" . Poetry Foundation . Poetry Foundation. September 19, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .{{cite web }}
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^ Hertzel, Laurie (December 13, 2016). "Four Minnesota writers win NEA grants" . Star Tribune . Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
^ Buccieri, Laura (April 16, 2018). "Danez Smith Wins the $20,000 Four Quartets Prize, Calls Their Mother" . Literary Hub .
^ a b c Flood, Alison (September 18, 2018). "Danez Smith becomes youngest winner of Forward poetry prize" . The Guardian . Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
^ "Board of Directors | About Us | Split This Rock" . splitthisrock.org . Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
^ Sehgal, Parul (January 7, 2020). " 'Homie,' a Book of Poems That Produces Shocking New Vibrations" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved March 29, 2021 .
^ Wallin, Blake (January 26, 2020). "Poetry by Its Own Name: a review of Homie by Danez Smith" . Maudlin House . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ "Minnesota Book Awards Winners & Finalists" . The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library . September 4, 2017.
^ "poem where I be & you just might by Danez Smith" . Poetry Society of America .
^ "Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith" . Poetry Foundation . Poetry Magazine. September 19, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .{{cite web }}
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^ Smith (September 3, 2015). "the bullet was a girl" . Academy of American Poets . Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
^ "Watch This Queer Black Poet Dismantle Racist Myth That 'All Lives Matter' (Video)" . July 21, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
^ "Poem: "You're Dead, America" By Danez Smith" . BuzzFeed . Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
^ Smith (February 1, 2017). "C.R.E.A.M." Academy of American Poets . Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
^ Smith, Danez. "Don't Try Us" . The FADER . Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
^ Smith, Danez (June 9, 2017). "From 'summer, somewhere' " . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
^ "2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Winners Announced" . Poetry Foundation . March 10, 2020. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
^ "Award Winners" . Poetry Society of America . Retrieved October 25, 2020 .
^ Poetry Foundation. "2016 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Go to Ross Gay and Danez Smith" . Harriet: The Blog . Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
^ "Winners & Finalists - Tufts Poetry Awards" . cgu.edu . Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
^ "NEA Announces Creative Writing Fellowships | Poets & Writers" . Poets & Writers . December 13, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
^ Temple, Emily (November 7, 2017). "Meet National Book Award Finalist Danez Smith" . Literary Hub . Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
^ "Danez Smith Wins Inaugural Four Quartets Prize" . Poets & Writers . April 13, 2018.
^ "Minnesota Book Awards Winners & Finalists" . The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library . September 4, 2017.
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