The award-winning poet talks about the new collection, “Bluff,” ahead of an event in Houston with Inprint on Monday, Aug. 19. Poet Danez Smith describes themselves as someone who typically writes ...

Danez Smith’s “Bluff” represents a notable turning point for the poet — and maybe for American poetry as a whole. By Nam Le Nam Le is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection “36 Ways of ...

Let’s begin with the title. “Bluff” — the name of Danez Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, and first since January 2020 — represents a cliff or aerie, a high point from which to take a broader view.

Danez Smith has won and been nominated for a lot of big prizes for their poetry, including the UK’s Forward Prize, the National Book Critic Circle Award and the National Book Award. But in 2020, Smith ...

You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls. Smith’s collection of poems, “Bluff,” was published by Graywolf Press earlier ...

Joseph Earl Thomas’s new novel, “God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer,” follows a health care worker on a tumultuous shift where every other patient seems to be someone from his past. By Danez Smith Danez ...