Words With Friends: Danez Smith Brings Their Homie To Houston This Week

On the phone with a modern master of the subject, we ask Danez Smith about words. Smith is one of America’s rising literary stars, a black, queer, gender-neutral, HIV-positive writer from St. Paul, Minnesota whose latest collection, Homie, just released via Graywolf Press. It’s the follow-up to their highly-acclaimed 2017…