Danez Smith

Danez Smith
Born St. Paul, Minnesota
Genre Poetry
Literary movement Dark Noise Collective

Danez Smith is a black, queer American poet.[1] They are the author of the poetry collection [insert] Boy, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and Don't Call Us Dead: Poems, a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for poetry.[2]

Personal life

Smith was born in St. Paul, Minnesota[3] and attended Central High School.[4] Their family is from Mississippi and Georgia.[5] Smith was a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with a BA in 2012, and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan.[6][7] Smith is gender neutral and goes by the pronoun they.[8]

Career

Smith is a founding member of Dark Noise Collective[9] with Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, and Jamila Woods.[10]

With Jamila Woods, Smith joined Macklemore for a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in February, 2016.[11] Their writing has been published in Poetry (magazine) and Ploughshares.[3] On March 30, 2017, Smith was the inaugural guest of the Alexander Lawrence Posey Speaker Series at the University of Central Oklahoma.[12]

Smith is the author of two books. [insert] Boy won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry,[13] with jurist Chase Twitchell describing Smith's poetry as "remarkable for its nervy, surprising, morally urgent poems."[14] Smith's second book, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems, is a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for poetry.[15] Smith is also the author of two chapbooks, hands on your knees (2013, Penmanship Books) and black movie (2015, Button Poetry), winner of the Button Poetry Prize.

Smith has twice been a finalist in Individual World Poetry Slam,[14] placing second in 2014.[16]

With Franny Choi, Smith is co-host of the poetry podcast VS from the Poetry Foundation.[17]

Smith won a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts grant.[18]

In 2018, Smith's sonnet sequence "summer, somewhere" received the inaugural Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America.[19] At age 29, Smith also became the youngest recipient of the £10,000 Forward Prize for best poetry collection, as Don't Call Us Dead beat out works by U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith and former Forward winner Vahni Capildeo.[8]

Works

Poems

Chapbooks

  • hands on your knees (2013, Penmanship Books)
  • black movie (2015, Button Poetry)

Books

  • [insert] Boy (2014) ISBN 978-1936919284
  • Don't Call Us Dead (2017) ISBN 978-1555977856

In Anthology

  • Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018) ISBN 978-0820353159

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Bio". Danez Smith. Poet. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
  2. ↑ "Don't Call Us Dead, by Danez Smith, 2017 National Book Award Longlist, Poetry". www.nationalbook.org. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  3. 1 2 "Danez Smith". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  4. ↑ "St. Paul poet Danez Smith shines in the national spotlight". Minnesota Public Radio. 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
  5. ↑ "The Conversation: Cortney Lamar Charleston and Danez Smith". The Rumpus. 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  6. ↑ "Bio". Danez Smith. Poet. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  7. ↑ "Danez Smith: A Poet Finding Freedom through Language". Wisconsin Alumni Association. 2017-11-30. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  8. 1 2 3 Flood, Alison (18 September 2018). "Danez Smith becomes youngest winner of Forward poetry prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Dark Noise Collective". Dark Noise Collective. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  10. ↑ "Dark Noise: Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, Danez Smith & Jamila Woods". Poetry Foundation. 2017-04-07. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  11. ↑ "See Macklemore Perform Jazzy 'White Privilege' on 'Colbert'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  12. ↑ "Alexander Lawrence Posey Speaker Series". University of Central Oklahoma. New Plains Student Publishing, University of Central Oklahoma. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  13. 1 2 "[REVIEW] [insert] boy, by Danez Smith - [PANK]". [PANK]. 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  14. 1 2 Press, Associated (March 2, 2016). "Poet Ross Gay wins Claremont's $100,000 Tufts prize". San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  15. ↑ "2017 National Book Award finalists revealed". CBS News. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  16. ↑ Segal, Corinne (November 16, 2015). "Poet Danez Smith issues a wake-up call to white America". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  17. ↑ "Introducing VS Podcast: Where Poets Confront the Ideas That Move Them by Franny Choi, Danez Smith". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  18. ↑ Hertzel, Laurie (December 13, 2016). "Four Minnesota writers win NEA grants". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  19. 1 2 Buccieri, Laura (April 16, 2018). "Danez Smith Wins the $20,000 Four Quartets Prize, Calls Their Mother". Literary Hub.
  20. ↑ "poem where I be & you just might by Danez Smith". Poetry Society of America.
  21. ↑ "Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  22. ↑ "Watch This Queer Black Poet Dismantle Racist Myth That 'All Lives Matter' (Video)". 2016-07-21. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  23. ↑ "Poem: "You're Dead, America" By Danez Smith". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  24. ↑ abrink (2017-01-19). "C.R.E.A.M." C.R.E.A.M. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  25. ↑ "Don't Try Us". The FADER. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  26. ↑ Smith, Danez (2017-06-09). "From 'summer, somewhere'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  27. ↑ "NEA Announces Creative Writing Fellowships | Poets & Writers". Poets & Writers. December 13, 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  28. ↑ Poetry Foundation. "2016 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Go to Ross Gay and Danez Smith". Harriet: The Blog. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  29. ↑ "Winners & Finalists - Tufts Poetry Awards". cgu.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.