"Because when I was a child, God would pull me up into her lap." Robin Coste Lewis reads her poem "The Body in August" on the campus of Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Lewis's debut poetry collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (Knopf, 2015), won the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry.
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