Hear a clip from ''On Juking With Another Black Boy.'' Mixon-Webster dedicated one poem to fellow queer poet Danez Smith. The piece was written after the two danced together at a party. Mixon-Webster credits Smith for bringing him into a fuller sense of who he is on the page. “I think one of the first poems I ever heard from Danez was, ‘Twerking as a Radical Form of Freedom.’ And the sheer authenticity, and the unabashed delivery and approach to Danez’s work really inspired me to put myself out there as authentically as possible.” Finding his voice off the page