Writer, poet and teacher Clint Smith talks with Jude Nixon, Professor of English at Salem State University. Both men are educators and fathers and their discussion explores what it means to raise children during this challenging period of the covid-19 pandemic and heightened racial tensions across the country. Image: Pexels.com
**Clint Smith** is a writer, teacher, and Emerson Fellow at New America. He currently teaches writing and literature in the DC Central Detention facility. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere. Smith’s first full-length collection of poetry, “COUNTING DESCENT” was published by Write Bloody Publishing in 2016. It won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award, and was selected as the 2017 ‘One Book One New Orleans’ book selection.
Professor of English at Salem State University, where his areas of interest are Victorian literature & culture, and Caribbean literature. He has written/edited five books on Victorian science, culture, religion, and the diaspora.