Chapters (46)
- Cover
- homie
- homie
- Copyright
- note on the title
- my nig
- my president
- niggas!
- how many of us have them?
- jumped!
- saw a video of a gang of bees swarming a hornet who killed their bee-homie so i called to say i love you
- fall poem
- rose
- i’m going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense
- the flower who bloomed thru the fence in grandmama’s yard
- in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say
- dogs!
- ode to gold teeth
- on faggotness
- self-portrait as ’90s R&B video
- my bitch!
- sometimes i wish i felt the side effects
- say it with your whole black mouth
- shout out to my niggas in Mexico
- white niggas
- what was said at the bus stop
- i didn’t like you when i met you
- for Andrew
- 1989–2016
- depression food
- undetectable
- all the good dick lives in Brooklyn Park
- broke n rice
- C.R.E.A.M.
- old confession & new
- gay cancer
- happy hour
- waiting on you to die so i can be myself
- the fat one with the switch
- my poems
- trees!
- my nig
- notes
- acknowledgments
- more notes & more acknowledgments
- About the Author
To the readers: you are why we do this. Thank each of you for considering the work, for sharing books with your friends, for continuing to make books better than gold. As always, this book is yours now.
Thank you, God.
About the Author
DANEZ SMITH is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. They live in Minneapolis.
The text of My Nig is set in Ten Oldstyle. Book design and composition by Bookmobile Design & Digital Publisher Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Manufactured by Sheridan on acid-free, 30 percent postconsumer wastepaper.