Eve L. Ewing
Chicago poet, sociology professor and comic writer Eve L. Ewing chooses poems from Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Ada Limon, Danez Smith and others. Producer Sally Heaven
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This Week's Poems
Theme for English B
by Langston Hughes
From The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
Published by Vintage
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
From Frost: Poems
Published by Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
Mossbawn: Sunlight
by Seamus Heaney
From ‘North’
Published by Faber & Faber
Those Winter Sundays
By Robert Hayden
From Collected Poems of Robert Hayden
Published by Liveright
I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party
By Chen Chen
Taken from https://poets.org/poem/i-invite-my-parents-dinner-party
Originally published in Poem-a-Day on April 19, 2018, by the Academy of American Poets. Copyright © 2018 by Chen Chen.
State Bird
By Ada Limon
From Bright Dead Things
Published by Corsair
Afro
By Morgan Parker
From There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
Published by Corsair
Dinosaurs in the Hood
By Danez Smith
Original version from Don't Call Us Dead
Published by Graywolf Press
Radio version provided by Danez Smith
Arrival Day
By Eve Ewing
from Electric Arches
Published by Penguin
Broadcasts
- Sun 17 Jan 202116:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 23 Jan 202123:30BBC Radio 4
