Togetherness, by Yusef Komunyakaa

From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Length: 01:23

Actor Dion Flynn reads Yusef Komunyakaa's poem Togetherness Read the full description.

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Playing: Togetherness, by Yusef Komunyakaa
From: Curtis Fox

Poetry_small Host Intro: This is Poetry Off the Shelf from The Poetry Foundation. The Poet Yusef Komunyakaa?s poems are rooted in his experiences as an African American growing up in rural Louisiana and his service in the Vietnam War. Influenced by the jazz music he loves as well as by people?s everyday speech, his poetry has won a number of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. This next poem, Togetherness, is read by the actor Dion Flynn Host Outro: That was Dion Flynn reading Yusef Komunyakaa's poem Togetherness. The piece was produced by PoetryFoundation.org. You can find out more about Yusef Komunyakaa , and read some of his poems, at the website PoetryFoundation.org.

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Piece Description

Host Intro: This is Poetry Off the Shelf from The Poetry Foundation. The Poet Yusef Komunyakaa?s poems are rooted in his experiences as an African American growing up in rural Louisiana and his service in the Vietnam War. Influenced by the jazz music he loves as well as by people?s everyday speech, his poetry has won a number of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. This next poem, Togetherness, is read by the actor Dion Flynn Host Outro: That was Dion Flynn reading Yusef Komunyakaa's poem Togetherness. The piece was produced by PoetryFoundation.org. You can find out more about Yusef Komunyakaa , and read some of his poems, at the website PoetryFoundation.org.