"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Shop Now Above Ground $27.00 littlebrown.com Seven years after his debut Counting Descent, Clint ...

A staff writer for The Atlantic, Smith is also the author of “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” and the poetry collection “Counting Descent.” ...

Clint Smith: When I began these ... In the poems "Counting Descent II," "By Chance" and "It's All in Your Head," you write about medical staff not listening to your wife during her pregnancy, ...

Clint Smith’s nonfiction works include the bestseller “How the Word Is Passed” and poetry collections “Counting Descent” and “Above Ground” (out March 28).

Clint Smith, a staff writer at The Atlantic, tells this story in his new poetry collection, ... Counting Descent, and his #1 New York Times-bestselling nonfiction book, ...

Few details go unnoticed by Clint Smith: His child’s first hiccup. The way his grandfather’s house still smells like his late grandmother’s hair. The eroding coastline in his home state of Louisiana.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In the summer of 2016, doctors told author Clint Smith and his wife that there was only a 1% chance ...

His first book, “Counting Descent,” also reckoned with family life and the complications of lineage and kinship. It was the 2017 One Book One New Orleans selection, which marked a very special ...

Clint Smith opens up about his newest book, ... “Counting Descent” – actually won the National Poetry Slam competition with a team of writers, including Elizabeth Acevedo, ...

Clint Smith, who won a National ... “Counting Descent,” in 2016 – and even “How the Word Is Passed” began as a poetry project. His new book of poems, “Above Ground,” published by ...