Presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Books, this chat with New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith will be moderated by Marcus Harrison Green, the Northwest African American Museum's 2022 Baldwin Circle Fellow. Smith will share the details on his latest poetry book, Above Ground. This quote really deserves to be shared in entirety, so here's Ross Gay on the collection: “I think there is an emergent theory, and maybe also a demand, when Clint Smith considers the brutalizing facts and language of war almost alongside a reverie about sprinkling sand on his baby’s feet; when he mourns the long and brutal and ongoing history of American slavery almost alongside making French toast with the kids or dancing until the whole family falls down. When he makes us witness the most incomprehensibly awful (and daily) brutalities not only beside but almost in tandem with the most incomprehensibly tender (and daily) actions of care. It’s a theory, and a demand, to which I think we must pay very close attention.”