Danez Smith

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Danez Smith

Past Event: Friday, September 27, 2024

At Town Hall Seattle—The Great Hall

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In Person & Online

Cost: $7 – $115

Although this event has passed, you can purchase a streaming pass to view the recording until 11:59 PM on Friday, October 4.

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith’s powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown of the Twin Cities.

Bluff is a kind of manifesto about artistic resilience, even when time and will can seem fleeting, when the places we most love—those given and made—are burning. In this soaring collection, Smith turns to honesty, hope, rage, and imagination to envision futures that seem possible.

Q&A with Luther Hughes.

Event Details

Town Hall Seattle—The Great Hall

1119 8th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101

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