Homie Poems by DanezSmith Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2020 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64445-010-9, ISBN: 1-64445-010-0
"Danez Smith is our presidentHomie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queern ..."
Don't Call Us Dead Poems by DanezSmith Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-785-6, ISBN: 1-55597-785-5
"Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection“[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”―The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by po ..."
Black Movie by DanezSmith Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2015 by Button Poetry ISBN-13: 978-1-943735-00-6, ISBN: 1-943735-00-X
""These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way–saying & laying it beautifully bare. A way of desensitizing the reader from his own defenses each time this long, black movie repeats."–Marcus Wicker "Danez Smith's BLACK MOVIE is a cinemati ..."
Homie by DanezSmith Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2020 by Chatto & Windus ISBN-13: 978-1-78474-305-5, ISBN: 1-78474-305-4
"Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer."
Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) by DanezSmith Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2018 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-952-9, ISBN: 1-60846-952-2
"Black Queer Hoe is a refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.Women’s sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this powerful debut, Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power, in a world that refuses Black Queer women permission to define their own lives and bo ..."
Don't Call Us Dead by DanezSmith Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2018 by Chatto & Windus ISBN-13: 978-1-78474-204-1, ISBN: 1-78474-204-X
"*Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry*`[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy' The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, a ..."
boy by DanezSmith Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2014 by Yesyes Books ISBN-13: 978-1-936919-28-4, ISBN: 1-936919-28-1
"Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Gay Poetry 2015. Chosen by Don Share for Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books, 2014. 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Finalist, Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America. "The poems of [INSERT] BOY have need of the body—desire it and lament its mortality—but over and again they assert Smith's seemingly religious belief that every sound t ..."
Homie Poems by DanezSmith 96 Pages, Published 2020 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64445-109-0, ISBN: 1-64445-109-3
"FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship."
Homie by DanezSmith 112 Pages, Published 2020 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-1-4735-6857-0, ISBN: 1-4735-6857-9
"A mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship, Danez Smith's highly anticipated collection Homie is rooted in their search for joy and intimacy in a time where both are scarce."
"Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, A Raven Chronicles Anthology, edited by Seattle-based writers Anna Balint, Phoebe Bosche, and Thomas Hubbard, contains poems, stories and images from 117 writers and 53 artists, divided into five fluid and intersecting sections: Legacies, We Are Here, Why?, Evidence, and Resistance. We begin with Legacies because the current increased climate of hate in this country didn’t begin with the 2016 election, an ..."
Don't Call Us Dead by DanezSmith 112 Pages, Published 2018 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-1-4735-4917-3, ISBN: 1-4735-4917-5
"*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018* *A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017* *A Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2018* ‘[Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they ..."
"The White Review is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in London in February 2011 to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre’, and publishes fiction, essays, interviews with writers and artists, poetry, and series of artworks. It takes its name and a degree of inspiration from La Revue Blanche, a Parisi ..."
Don't Call Us Dead Poems by DanezSmith 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-977-5, ISBN: 1-55597-977-7
"Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry “[Smith's] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”—The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for ..."
"J. Scott Brownlee. Poetry Prize and first appeared in Ruminate. “Backyard
Reckoning” first ... Thank you John and Linda Brownlee (for always supporting
me).Thank you Patrick Courtney (for your solidarity). Thank you Ramya Varma (
for all of ..."
Black Movie by DanezSmith 40 Pages, Published 2015 by Scb Distributors ISBN-13: 978-1-943735-09-9, ISBN: 1-943735-09-3
"A way of desensitizing the reader from his own defenses each time this long, black movie repeats."—Marcus Wicker "Danez Smith's BLACK MOVIE is a cinematic tour-de-force that lets poetry vie with film for the honor of which medium can most ..."
"Welcome to Tandem: a literary journal unlike any other. When you open this book, you'll find a print record of the most beloved performances from an entire season of a hip underground San Francisco-based poetry show (literally… as in, in a basement). Our audience told us what they loved, and the result is an anthology crafted month by month to charm, challenge, and inspire you. Equal parts time capsule, social experiment, and love lette ..."
"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."
"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Jo ..."
Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) by DanezSmith Hardcover, 72 Pages, Published 2018 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-516-3, ISBN: 1-60846-516-0
"Black Queer Hoe is a refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.Women’s sexuality is often used as a weapon against them. In this powerful debut, Britteney Black Rose Kapri lends her unmistakable voice to fraught questions of identity, sexuality, reclamation, and power, in a world that refuses Black Queer women permission to define their own lives and bo ..."
Homie (kf8) by DanezSmith 96 Pages, Published 1920 ISBN-13: 978-1-4735-6862-4, ISBN: 1-4735-6862-5