Summary: <p><span>National Book Award finalist and Lambda Award winning author and poet, </span>Danez Smith<span> creates poetry that viscerally examines the intricacies of gender, the recognition of Black family and kinship, rebirth and growing to know and learn themselves anew every day.</span></p> <p><span>They are the author of three books: <em>[Insert] Boy</em>, <em>Don't Call Us Dead</em>, and <em>Homie</em>.</span></p> <p><span>They join us to discuss their craft, how poetry saved their life, and their dreams of a Black Queer future.</span></p>
