Listen to recorded poetry readings and commentary, posted weekly on DGPL's website and Facebook page. For more readings visit https://www.africanamericanpoetry.org/media-library
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song is the centerpiece of Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters, a national public humanities initiative made possible with support from The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Emerson Collective. For more details, please visit the companion website, featuring video readings and commentaries—over fifty in all—by poets Kevin Young and Elizabeth Alexander, actors Mahershala Ali and Phylicia Rashad, and others—plus a timeline of African American poetry, archival audio and video, photos and biographies of the poets, a reading group guide with brief essays by leading poets and scholars, and more.
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