“Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith

“Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith

On Being with Krista Tippett

Clint Smith reads his poem, “Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversation with Krista, “What We Know in the ‘Marrow of Our Bones.’” Find more of his poems, along with our full collection of poetry films and readings from two decades of the show, at Experience Poetry.Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic . His narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America , won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and many other honors. His poetry collections are Counting Descent and Above Ground .
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