Homie: Poems

Homie: PoemsFINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY Danez Smith is our president Homie is Danez Smiths magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smiths close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges

Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4

are all too happy to participate in the event and even make a little wager on who can make it through the corn maze the fastest--but their fun is suddenly cut short when a dead body is found in the middle of the maze

the unique contributions of women to abolitionist struggles

In prison he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary

She'd been struggling with illness for nearly a year and was desperately searching for healing

and I’m not doing it ironically

Like the blazing Chicago sun

This is a satire with sharper teeth

will the Prince and Duchess be a fairy tale romance for the ages or a disaster of palatial proportions

drawn to philosophy

and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems

they might even look like him