Seven years after his debut Counting Descent, Clint Smith releases his second poetry collection, Above Ground (Little, Brown), which reflects on how fatherhood has altered how he perceives and ...

Readers of his first collection, Counting Descent, and his #1 New York Times -bestselling nonfiction book, How the Word is Passed, will find similar themes of duality here, “where we experience ...

My first book, Counting Descent, is largely about coming of age as a young Black child, and about black childhood and adolescence amid the early days of Black Lives Matter movement and this ...

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.” ...

Q: 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, and how "doctors said that we had ...

This is how writer and academic Clint Smith, 36, begins the epilogue of his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.

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

The joys of parenthood are many and varied, but for a writer like Clint Smith, a special pleasure has been watching his son learn to read.

In 2014, Smith – just two years before he would go on to publish his first book of poetry, “Counting Descent” – actually won the National Poetry Slam competition with a team of writers ...

But Smith is a poet at heart. He published his debut poetry collection, “Counting Descent,” in 2016 – and even “How the Word Is Passed” began as a poetry project.