By Anne Sexton
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By Joshua Bennett
Read Me a Poem - “The Color Blue” by Boris Pasternak
Amanda Holmes reads Boris Pasternak’s poem “The Color Blue,” translated from the Russian by Olga Dumer. 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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by Lorine Niedecker (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)
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