“Lines to a Nasturtium” by Anne Spencer

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.

Amanda Holmes, the author of the novel I Know Where I Am When I’m Falling, is a columnist and poetry editor for the Washington Independent Review of Books.