In this interview for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Kwame Alexander talks about winning an Emmy Award for the television adaptation of his novel The Crossover, and reads one of his poems which appears in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (Little, Brown, 2024). For more on the anthology, read “The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections” in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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