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Activism/Service & poetry

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Amanda Gorman, Activist and National Youth Poet Laureate | Amanpour and Company

Alicia Menendez sits down with Amanda Gorman, who at twenty-one years old is already a published author, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, and founder of an initiative in her hometown of Los Angeles that promotes literacy.

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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived.

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Adrienne Rich: "For Ethel Rosenberg"

In this excerpt from the documentary "Unknown Secrets: Art & the Rosenberg Era" Adrienne Rich is captured reading her poem, 'For Ethel Rosenberg" at Boston's Faneuil Hall.

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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

This work illuminates today's Black experience through the voices of transformative and powerful African American poets. Included in this volume are the poems of 43 African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith.

Phil Cushway (compiler), Michael Warr (editor)

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