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“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | November 2, 2018
Langston Hughes in 1936, photographed by Carl Van Vechten (Library of Congress/photo-illustration by Stephanie Bastek)
Langston Hughes in 1936, photographed by Carl Van Vechten (Library of Congress/photo-illustration by Stephanie Bastek)

Amanda Holmes reads Langston Hughes’s poem, “Let America Be America Again.” Have a suggestion for a poem? 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.

Permission required for reprinting, reproducing, or other uses.

Amanda Holmes, the author of the novel I Know Where I Am When I’m Falling, is a book club facilitator for Fairfax County Public Library and a bookseller at Politics and Prose in Washington, D. C. Follow her blog at nextbookbyamandaholmes.blogspot.com

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