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Clint Smith

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Clint Smith is staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Clint has received fellowships from New America, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and elsewhere. He currently teaches writing and literature at the DC Central Detention Facility. His debut nonfiction book How the Word Is Passed, which explores how different historical sites reckon with—or fail to reckon with—their relationship to the history of slavery, will be published by Little, Brown in June 2021. He received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University.

Clint Smith

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Website: Go to Website

Twitter: Go to Twitter Account

Clint Smith is staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Clint has received fellowships from New America, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and elsewhere. He currently teaches writing and literature at the DC Central Detention Facility. His debut nonfiction book How the Word Is Passed, which explores how different historical sites reckon with—or fail to reckon with—their relationship to the history of slavery, will be published by Little, Brown in June 2021. He received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University.

Books from Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

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Counting Descent

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

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Wildness, Omnibus 2015-19

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The American Poetry Review Vol. 45 No. 6 - Nov/Dec 2016

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Language Acts and Worldmaking)