Poem: "You're Dead, America" By Danez Smith
"you’re dead, America / & where you died / grew something worse"
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Danez Smith
Danez Smith is a 2014 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He is the author of [insert] Boy. His writing has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kinfolks & elsewhere.
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Poem: "It Doesn't Feel Like A Time To Write" By Danez Smith
A new poem for BuzzFeed READER.
"Not An Elegy For Mike Brown": Two Poems For Ferguson
Poet Danez Smith's "Not An Elegy For Mike Brown" and "Alternate Names for Black Boys." Republished with permission.
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"Not An Elegy For Mike Brown": Two Poems For Ferguson
Poet Danez Smith's "Not An Elegy For Mike Brown" and "Alternate Names for Black Boys." Republished with permission.
Poem: "You're Dead, America" By Danez Smith
"you’re dead, America / & where you died / grew something worse"
Poem: "It Doesn't Feel Like A Time To Write" By Danez Smith
A new poem for BuzzFeed READER.