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The Intentions of Thunder

2025 poetry collection by Patricia Smith

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ138720244 ↗
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The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems is a poetry collection by American poet Patricia Smith, published by Scribner on September 30, 2025. The book won the National Book Award for Poetry (2025). It also won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry (2026).

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This entry incorporates text from “The Intentions of Thunder” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.