Ode To Poetry Month: A Match Game

April 17, 2012 3:23 AM

We asked some NPR personalities to tell us what poems they might recite to a friend during Poetry Month. Drag a photo to the correct poem to hear a reading.

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Poetry Match Game

Notes

* Translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak.
** From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad.

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