Dan Chiasson's New Yorker review of Don't Call Us Dead highlights the intricate transit of performance poetry from stage to page. Danez Smith broke into national attention when his poem "Dear White America" was featured on the PBS NewsHour (11/16/15). Of course he was already well known in the poetry slam world. In the PBS story there's a link to his Rustbelt 2014 reading of "DWA" but please take a look at it on the page first — page 25 of our DCUD or online (though it can be argued this approach is completely ass backwards).
Further readings and performances —
Split This Rock;
Vintage Meets;
Rotterdam 2018
— offer interesting contrasts and developments.
Finally a long PBS "Book View Now" feature from a year ago (3/9/18).
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