By Lachlan Chu
Audio Poem of the Day - Chimera (Excerpt 2)
By Averill Curdy
Audio Poem of the Day - In Eight Parts
by Paul Killebrew
Read Me a Poem - “Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes
Amanda Holmes reads Langston Hughes’s “Daybreak in Alabama.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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