In-Store: Patricia Smith: The Intentions of Thunder w/ Tyehimba Jess, 30 September | Event in Brooklyn | AllEvents

In-Store: Patricia Smith: The Intentions of Thunder w/ Tyehimba Jess

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Tue, 30 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

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Tue, 30 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm (GMT-04:00)

Books Are Magic Smith

225 Smith Street, Brooklyn, United States

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In-Store: Patricia Smith: The Intentions of Thunder w/ Tyehimba Jess
“Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last.” —Danez Smith, The Guardian

About this Event

Event guidelines:

  • Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured books or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.
  • Additional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event.
  • A signing will follow the talk.
  • Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
  • As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.

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A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of the most groundbreaking voices in contemporary poetry, a “masterful performer and poet of voices too little heard” (Poetry Foundation).

The Intentions of Thunder gathers, for the first time, the essential work from across Patricia Smith’s decorated career. Here, Smith’s poems, affixed with her remarkable gift of insight, present a rapturous ode to life. With careful yet vaulting movement, these poems traverse the redeeming landscape of pain, confront the frightening revelations of history, and disclose the joyous possibilities of the future. The result is a profound testament to the necessity of poetry—all the careful witness, embodied experience, and bristling pleasure that it bestows—and of Smith’s necessary voice.

Lyrical and sly, meditative and volcanic, The Intentions of Thunder stunningly explores the fullness of living. The inimitable poetry of Patricia Smith radiates in The Intentions of Thunder—reaffirming Smith’s place as one of the indispensable poets of our time.


Patricia Smith is an inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of nine acclaimed books of poetry, including Unshuttered; Incendiary Art, finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the 2018 NAACP Image Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist. A Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, Smith is a creative writing professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and a former distinguished professor at the City University of New York. She lives in New Jersey with her husband.


Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Jess' fiction and poetry have appeared in many journals, as well as anthologies such as Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, and Slam: The Art of Performance Poetry.


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Ticket + book (Store Pickup) 33 USD
Ticket + gift card (Store Pickup) 11 USD
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In-Store: Patricia Smith: The Intentions of Thunder w/ Tyehimba Jess, 30 September | Event in Brooklyn | AllEvents
In-Store: Patricia Smith: The Intentions of Thunder w/ Tyehimba Jess
Tue, 30 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm
USD 11