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Yusef Komunyakaa reads 'I Am Silas'

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April 21, 2014

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Yusef Komunyakaa's poem "I Am Silas" is published in Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present." In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery commissioned 12 modern poets to reflect on our contemporary understanding of the war. Komunyakaa reads the poem at the gallery in Washington D.C.

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