Danez Smith Archives

May 29, 2020 1 min read

In light of recent events in Minneapolis, this poem from Lambda Literary Award winning poet Danez Smith is particularly relevant....

Homie by Danez Smith

Sarah Neilson

Poetry

January 15, 2020 4 min read

Homie is expansive, big enough to hold a vast mosaic of emotion and style Read More

‘Don’t Call Us Dead’ by Danez Smith

David Eye

Reviews

January 15, 2019 4 min read

In Don’t Call Us Dead, Smith’s attention moves from the violence perpetrated on black boys to queerness and HIV and back to race, using startling forms and imaginative leaps. Read More

Danez Smith Wins the The Four Quartets Prize

Cosmo Halterman de Ochoa

News

April 13, 2018 1 min read

The prize honors a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book Read More

The Smiths’ Graphic Novel, ‘The Boys in the Band’ Read Poetry, and More LGBTQ News

Parrish Turner

News

March 4, 2018 2 min read

This week in LGBTQ news Read More

A Literary War of The Words, Danez Smith on Writer’s Block, and More LGBTQ News

Parrish Turner

News

November 21, 2017 2 min read

Poet Sam Sax on community and identity, Susan Sontag's fiction, and more LGBTQ news Read More

A New Trans Anthology, the National Book Awards, and More LGBTQ News

Parrish Turner

News

October 18, 2017 1 min read

Exploring the cover design of Her Body and Other Parties, a new trans anthology, and more lgbtq news Read More

Writers on the Election, Hopeful Public Art, and More LGBTQ News

Parrish Turner

News Opinion

November 12, 2016 2 min read

Justin Vivian Bond on revolutionary art, writers on the election, and more LGBTQ news... Read More

Frank Ocean Opens the Floodgates, Lidia Yuknavitch on Writing About Sexuality, and Alexander Chee’s Fashion Moment

Parrish Turner

News

August 26, 2016 2 min read

Frank Ocean's cultural production, Brandon Taylor on writing with empathy, and more LGBTQ news Read More

Writers on Mississippi’s Anti-Gay Legislation, Jewelle Gomez on Vampires, and Other LGBT News

Parrish Turner

News

April 17, 2016 1 min read

Childhood literary crushes, ACLU takes on prison censorship, and more LGBT news Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

In Light of Recent Events in Minneapolis, Listen to this ‘Letter to White America’

Homie by Danez Smith

‘Don’t Call Us Dead’ by Danez Smith

Danez Smith Wins the The Four Quartets Prize

The Smiths’ Graphic Novel, ‘The Boys in the Band’ Read Poetry, and More LGBTQ News

A Literary War of The Words, Danez Smith on Writer’s Block, and More LGBTQ News

A New Trans Anthology, the National Book Awards, and More LGBTQ News

Writers on the Election, Hopeful Public Art, and More LGBTQ News

Frank Ocean Opens the Floodgates, Lidia Yuknavitch on Writing About Sexuality, and Alexander Chee’s Fashion Moment

Writers on Mississippi’s Anti-Gay Legislation, Jewelle Gomez on Vampires, and Other LGBT News

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta