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National Book Award finalist and Lambda Award winning author and poet, Danez Smith creates poetry that viscerally examines the intricacies of gender, the recognition of Black family and kinship, rebirth and growing to know and learn themselves anew every day.
They are the author of three books: [Insert] Boy, Don't Call Us Dead, and Homie.
They join us to discuss their craft, how poetry saved their life, and their dreams of a Black Queer future.
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National Book Award finalist and Lambda Award winning author and poet, Danez Smith creates poetry that viscerally examines the intricacies of gender, the recognition of Black family and kinship, rebirth and growing to know and learn themselves anew every day.
They are the author of three books: [Insert] Boy, Don't Call Us Dead, and Homie.
They join us to discuss their craft, how poetry saved their life, and their dreams of a Black Queer future.

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