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Clint Smith With Stephen Colbert

Clint Smith: Poetry is the Act of Paying Attention

“For me, poetry is the act of paying attention. It pushes me to pay attention to a moment, a feeling, an idea, an image.” Clint Smith speaks about what poetry means to him, the themes in his new collection, Above Ground (Little, Brown, 2023), and reads his poem “All at Once” in this interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

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Clint Smith
Above Ground
Little, Brown
2023
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
interview

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