Visiting Writer: Danez Smith
Schedule
Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 03:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
The Wittliff Collections | San Marcos, TX
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.
Where is it happening?
The Wittliff Collections, 701 Student Center Dr, San Marcos, TX 78666, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: