Clint Smith

Poet and scholar

Clint Smith appears in the following:

Teaching History in This Fraught Time

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

The Tenement Museum is hosting teachers this summer in a program that will provide expertise on how they can effectively teach Black and immigrant history. Annie Polland, president of...

Clint Smith's 'Above Ground': Poems on Fatherhood and the World

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Writer Clint Smith on new book of poems, Above Ground

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The True Cost of Prison Phone Calls

Thursday, October 07, 2021

Phone-call fees from incarcerated people generate millions of dollars for states, but children pay the price.

Touring America's Monuments to Slavery

Friday, June 18, 2021

Clint Smith leads listeners through a tour of U.S. monuments and landmarks that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s history.

A Poet Reflects On How We Reckon — Or Fail To Reckon — With The Legacy Of Slavery

Monday, December 28, 2020

Atlantic writer Clint Smith grew up surrounded by Confederate iconography, being told that the Civil War wasn't about slavery. He shares a poem from his forthcoming book, How the Word Is Passed.

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Parenting and Protest

Thursday, June 04, 2020

Clint Smith talks about how his activism has changed since having children, and takes your calls on how parenting informs how you protest.

Our Monthly Poetry Series

Monday, February 25, 2019

Clint Smith's poetry.

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Podcast Mixtape | Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice

Monday, March 05, 2018

Mysonne Linen hosts a series of conversations with special guests at the launch event for a new podcast following the lives of several youth navigating the juvenile justice system

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