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Midwest Poets Series: Danez Smith

Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM until 8:00 PMCentral Standard Time UTC -06:00

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Pedro Arrupe S.J. Hall - Auditorium
5351 Forest Ave
Kansas City, MO 64110
United States

Midwest Poet Series: Danez Smith

Danez Smith is the author of four collections including Don’t Call Us Dead, Homie, and, most recently, Bluff. They are also the curator of Blues In Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes. For their work, Danez has won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, as well as an array of grants, fellowships, and residencies including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Princeton Arts Fellowship. Smith teaches at the Randolph College MFA program and the Black Youth Healing Arts Center in St. Paul, and lives in Minneapolis with their people.

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