Kevin Young Discusses “won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton

Poet Kevin Young, editor of the Library of America anthology "African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song," shares his thoughts on the poem by Lucille Clifton (1936-2010).
This video is part of LIFT EVERY VOICE, a nationwide celebration of African American poetic traditions presented by Library of America in partnership with the Schomburg Center and made possible with support from The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Emerson Collective.
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Music: "Lift Every Voice And Sing"-Charles Lloyd, Lift Every Voice, ℗ 2002 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin. Provided to KZbin by Universal Music Group.

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Love her.

[@barblc3202]

I wish they had read out the whole poem

[@thatlittlezombie]

great poem and i love your comments on it. especially about the "i". powerful!

[@alexandria.alexandria.alex6491]

I love this poem