I hope it can bridge beyond conversation into action. We want everyone to have what they need in order to be able to write. The Lammy’s were crazy. It’s how poetry happens. Danez Smith. Let’s name her Jamal. A poem does not keep a police officer’s hands off of a twelve-year-old-girl. That’s a poem that is speaking about an orgy where “everyone could be a mall santa or a senator.” It’s a poem about what is already a sociologically fascinating moment, something most people don’t have any experiential relationship to. I’m glad we’re making sure those poems aren't hidden in super guarded, protected institutions. I guess I expected it, but not the volume at which it happened. It’s challenged me a lot, deciding what type of poet I wanted to become. Description. I see it all the time. I was writing some of these poems when I was a sad undergrad. I am not trying to outsmart anybody or be better than anybody. It’s this tension of, sure let’s have this conversation now that you’re ready to have it, but also I’ve been living this conversation for decades, my people for centuries. Writing isn’t going to change the world. You’re so happy that you’re not sad right now, because you know how easy it is to be sad. Whatever happens happens in that created space. I’m sure this has been said more articulately by people smarter than me, but it seems like that’s a real source of power for the book. It’s so weird and exciting. Even in the most joyous of spaces, the end for us is always lurking around the corner. When I went to Cave Canem, I never really left. I get emails from grown white people all the time asking me about, who are the white authors writing about race that I really appreciate right now? Danez Smith’s Black Movie, the winner of the 2014 Button Poetry Prize. It’s given me a lot of good questions about how canon is created, or how a school of poetry is created. It’s that same thing. Danez placed second at the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam and is the two-time Rustbelt Regional Champion. He is the author of Adoption (Winner of the 2017 Diode Editions Chapbook Award) and The Willies (forthcoming from Button Poetry, 2020), and his work has… MORE. I’m working on a second collection now and those poems are different, because there aren’t many poems that embrace spoken word in obvious ways. I am not trying to deny the things that are quintessential or the things I fear. His writing has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Narrative & elsewhere. It’s weird. I want to give people something interesting in the music to drag them along through the story. This has come up a lot in poetry in a really beautiful way. But when we’re posting them online or we’re doing these events, we’re actually able to give folks something to touch, to give them inspiration, to put some light in the lives of black people. [insert] boy at YesYes Books You say, it’s me. Website | Instagram @danez_smif | Facebook @danezsmithpoet | Twitter @Danez_Smif. I just need to engage. I try to take people at their word about their experience. Sure, great, you published this poem in The Paris American? DANEZ SMITH: Thanks so … Haha. A list of poems by Danez Smith Danez Smith is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf … They is a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, placing second in 2014. Their work has published widely, including in Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, Buzzfeed, Blavity, and Ploughshares. There’s a long poem in the new book about a magic paradise where all murdered black boys go that’s swallowed up so many hours and tears.
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