Poet Michael S. Harper talks about sharing the poet's art with his students at Yale
and the importance of the "internal" neighborhoods of writers. He reads Gwendolyn Brooks's _We Real Cool_, Robert Hayden's _Those Winter Sundays_, and his own poem _Lady's Blues_ about the jazz singer Billy Holiday.

This segment is from a recent edition of _What's the Word?_, produced by Sally Placksin and sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America.

Well-suited to National Poetry Month in April.

Photo: Michael S. Harper
Photo Credit: Rachel Harper