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Interview with Clint Smith


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On today's episode we chat with Clint Smith a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, and the poetry collection Counting Descent.

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About this month's guest:

Clint has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review, and elsewhere. He is a former National Poetry Slam champion and a recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review.

Photo credit: Carletta Girma via/ author website

Clint's books:

  • How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
  • Counting Descent
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    Audiobooks mentioned in this episode:

    • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
    • The Movement Made Us by David J. Dennis Jr. & David J. Dennis Sr.
    • An Immense World by Ed Yong
    • Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
    • The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
    • Dirty Work by Eyal Press
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