He taught high school English in Prince George's County, Maryland, and writing and literature at jails and prisons hosted the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History has given TED talks and won the National Poetry Slam championship in 2014 with the Beltway Poetry Slam team ( Elizabeth Acevedo was a member and a teacher at the same high school). Smith, a staff writer at The Atlantic and contributing editor at Poets & Writers, wrote his dissertation on justice reform and juveniles sentenced to life in prison with no parole for his Ph.D. It was chosen as a common read at seven colleges and universities and as a President Obama favorite in 2021. In between collections, he wrote the NYT-bestselling How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
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 engages with the world.
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