Visiting Writer: Danez Smith

Visiting Writer: Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series
Danez Smith

EVENT DETAILS
Reading + Q&A
Nov 5, 2025 @3:30 P.M.
The Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library, Texas State University

BIO
Danez Smith is the author of four poetry collections: [insert]boy, 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 was 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. Danez lives in the Twin Cities with their people and teaches at the Randolph College MFA program and the Black Youth Healing Arts Center in St. Paul, MN. (from author website)

Visit the department website for more info about the TKL literary series and TKL events:
https://www.english.txst.edu/about/tkl/tkl-author-bios.html

If you require accommodations due to a disability in order to participate, please contact (512)245-2163 at least 72 hours in advance of the event.

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