Danez Smith

I hope this project can be a gathering ground for those who fight and live against police brutality while being a place of understanding and transformation for those who can’t wrap their minds around why all those people in the streets are yapping about. I am looking for work that is human, well-crafted, and not scared of passing dangerous, necessary things.      

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Danez Smith is the winner of a 2014 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He is the author of [insert] boy (2014, YesYes Books). He is a Cave Canem, VONA, and McKnight Foundation Fellow. His writing has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kinfolks & elsewhere. He is a founding member of the multi-genre, multicultural collective Dark Noise. Danez placed second at the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam. He holds a BA from UW-Madison where he was a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar. He lives in Minneapolis, MN.