Clint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling poetry collection Above Ground and the award-winning poetry collection Counting Descent. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
Above Ground is nominated in the Best Poetry Book of the Year category for the 16th Annual AAMBC Literary Awards.
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association selects Above Ground for the Best Poetry Award.
How the Word Is Passed is named one of the 50 best nonfiction books of all time.
By: Jennifer Kushnier
Reader’s Digest
Host Ashley C. Ford speaks with Clint and a variety of journalists to uncover how specific US monuments took inspiration from Holocaust memorials in Germany to memorialize the horrific legacy of lynching in this country.
Hosted By: Ashley C. Ford
Monumental Podcast
