![anne_spencer Black and white photograph of a light-skinned black woman standing in a lovely 19th-century white wedding dress](https://theamericanscholar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/anne_spencer-1024x572.png)
Anne B. Spencer in her wedding dress, 1900, from an archive collected by James Weldon and Carl Van Vechten (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University/Wikimedia Commons)
Amanda Holmes reads Anne Spencer’s poem, “Lines to a Nasturtium.” 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.