Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s work has been featured widely, appearing on platforms such as Buzzfeed, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award they also wrote boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. How can we understand moments of emergency as catalysts for renewal, as ruptures that signal massive-if painful-change?ĭanez Smith is a Black, Queer, Poz writer & performer from St. What kinds of poetic modes of address might be recruited in times of global catastrophe? How does poetry help us think through and within crisis? “Emergency” implies urgency, sudden harm, life-threatening violence, and extreme circumstances, but embedded within it is the word “emergence ” suggesting rebirth and new beginnings. This two-year initiative (Jan 2020 – Dec 2021) explores the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care, mindfulness, and resistance. As a think tank for the arts at UC Berkeley, ARC acts as a facilitator and connector between the campus and the many flourishing regional poetry communities. Poetry and the Senses creates meaningful opportunities for engagement, research, and collaboration. Danez and Patricia were joined in conversation by 2020 ARC Poetry fellow Menat Allah El Attma and ARC Program Director Laurie Macfee, and took questions from the online audience. This reading was generously funded by the Engaging the Senses Foundation, and was part of ARC’s ongoing Poetry and the Senses initiative. Thursday, December 3, 2020, 5:00-6:30 PSTĭanez Smith and Patricia Smith had a joint reading and conversation. Danez Smith and Patricia Smith | Readings + Conversation
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