Danez Smith is an American poet. He is the author of the poetry collection [insert] Boy (2014).

Smith is a founding member of Dark Noise Collective with Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, and Jamila Woods.

With Jamila Woods, Smith joined Macklemore for a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in February, 2016. His writing has been published in Poetry (magazine) and Ploughshares.

Alternate names for black boys

1. smoke above the burning bush 2. archnemesis of summer night

From "summer, somewhere"

somewhere, a sun. below, boys brown as rye play the dozens & ball, jump

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Have I spent too much time worrying about the boys killing each other to pray for the ones who do it with their own hands?

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