S7 Ep. 13: Holiday Archives: Danez Smith on Poetry, Blackness, and Friendship

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In this holiday re-broadcast of an episode from April 23, 2020, acclaimed poet Danez Smith discusses the role friendship plays in their most recent collection of poetry, Homie. Smith talks to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the isolating effect COVID-19 has had on black communities, using space on the page inventively, and writing about money. This episode is presented in conjunction with the Loft Literary Center’s literary festival, Wordplay, which in 2020 was a virtual event.

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This episode was produced by Andrea Tudhope.

Guests:

● Danez Smith

Selected

readings for the episode:

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Danez Smith

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Homie

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Don’t Call Us Dead

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TwoPoems

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what was said on the bus stop: a new poem by Danez Smith

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my president

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VS podcast, from the Poetry Foundation, hosted by Danez Smith and Franny Choi

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Others

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Corona Correspondences: #28 by Danielle Evans (The Sewanee Review)

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Review: ‘Homie,’ a Book of Poems That Produces Shocking New Vibrations by Pahrul

Sehgal

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Frank O’Hara

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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

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Angel Nafis

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Hieu Minh Nguyen

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Douglas Kearney

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1977:

Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer by June Jordan

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Recordings of June Jordan from the Radcliffe

Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Digitized recordings and more

digitized recordings

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‘Feet’ and ‘Spoon’ from Catalog

of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

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Mirrors: Stories of

Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano

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