Clint Smith

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Clint Smith

Clint Smith's 2021 book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, considers how our country was shaped by slavery, through Smith's visits to landmarks and monuments. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and was a well-deserved pick of many year-end best of lists. (If you haven't read it, what are you waiting for?) Smith is also a poet, and his second collection, Above Ground, is out March 28, just ahead of this Wisconsin Book Festival reading and talk.