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Poets Danez Smith and Diannely Antigua at the Portland Book Festival
Poets Danez Smith and Diannely Antigua at the Portland Book Festival
Poets Danez Smith and Diannely Antigua at the Portland Book Festival

Published on: 12/23/2024

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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 stopped writing. In the depths of the pandemic, after the death of George Floyd in Smith’s hometown of Minneapolis, poetry began to feel less powerful as a place for social change.

Smith joined poet Diannely Antigua, author of two poetry collections including “Good Monster,” for a conversation with OPB’s Jenn Chavez at the 2024 Portland Book Festival to talk about the role of poetry in our fractured society and our fractured lives.

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News Source : https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/23/poets-danez-smith-and-diannely-antigua-at-the-portland-book-festival/

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