Danez Smith Is Coming to Town With a Good Poem About Vaseline

by Rich SmithSmith reads for Seattle Arts and Lectures at Broadway Performance Hall on Monday, November 26. Hieu Minh Nguyen
When you’re talking about Danez Smith, the old page-poet/stage-poet dichotomy simply dissolves. Their stage poems contain all the precision of the most well-crafted lyrics, and their page poems burn with the fire of any performance poet.Smith's versatility (plus their tireless hustle and talent) had made them one of the most successful poets working in any form of co