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Books
  
Insert Boy, Black Movie, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Profiles

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Danez Smith is an American poet. He is the author of the poetry collection [insert] Boy (2014). As of 2015, Mr. Danez was a candidate in the University of Michigan's MFA program.

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Career

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Smith is a founding member of Dark Noise Collective with Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, and Jamila Woods.

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With Jamila Woods, Smith joined Macklemore for a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in February, 2016. His writing has been published in Poetry (magazine) and Ploughshares.

Awards and honors

  • 2016 - Kate Tufts Discovery Award
  • 2015 - Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry

    • Personal life

    Smith was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.


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    References

    Danez Smith Wikipedia
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