Clint Smith and Terisa Siagatonu
Poets Clint Smith\xa0and Terisa Siagatonu address issues like climate change, while also looking back at American history. Clint Smith is the author of the best-selling narrative nonfiction book,\xa0How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America\xa0and the poetry collection\xa0Counting Descent. His latest,\xa0Above Ground, traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, particularly Black fatherhood.
\n\nTerisa Siagatonu\xa0is an award-winning poet, teaching artist, mental health educator, and community leader born and rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing blends the personal, cultural, and political in a way that calls for healing, courage, justice, and truth.
\n\nOn April 12, 2023, Clint Smith and Terisa Siagatonu came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco. \xa0