Reading the Poem: Silently read the poem “ Let America Be America Again ” by Langston Hughes. What do you notice about the ...

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As I weaved through the verses, I felt myself steadying on stage, anticipating the next line and delivering it with just the ...

Poets were there to speak up—and sing—for those who had been silenced ... a composition of pilgrimage and spiritual observation which Hirsch describes as very American. “Like our culture, the poem is ...