Danez Smith Reads “Heartbeats” by Melvin Dixon

Toi Derricotte Reads “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden

Lift Every Voice: New York City

Eve L. Ewing: “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store”

Rita Dove Reads “The Wardrobe Lesson”

Rita Dove Reads “Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove”

Rachel Eliza Griffiths: “Seeing the Body”

Elizabeth Alexander Discusses “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

Mahershala Ali Discusses Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Malcolm X”