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Clint Smith is the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent (2016) and a meta-historical travelogue novel How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (2021). Counting Descent won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the…
By Clint Smith About this Poet Clint Smith is the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent (2016) and a meta-historical travelogue novel How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (2021).
Mar 29, 2023 · In 'Above Ground,' Clint Smith uses poetry to confront the legacy of slavery. March 29, 202312:25 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Terry Gross. 37-Minute Listen. Playlist. Smith's poems,...
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Clint Smith - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Clint Smith is the author of Counting Descent (Write Bloody Publishing, 2016).
Mar 28, 2023 · Clint Smith's new poems in Above Ground wash over like waves asking us to discern all the times we've trusted the world, even when it has not offered us a steady current. Even though this...
FaceTime by Clint Smith - Poems | Academy of American Poets. Load audio player. Clint Smith. On another night. in a hotel. in a room. in a city. flanked by all. that is unfamiliar. I am able to move. my finger along. a glass screen. once across. once vertical. & in seconds. see your mother. smiling in a room. that is our own. that is now so.
A remarkable new poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed. Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.
