Podcast

August 26, 2008

Poetry & Literature

Interview with Poet Yusef Komunyakaa

By

Christopher Benincasa

Yusef Komunyakaa

NJN producer Christopher Benincasa meets up with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa at a Trenton bookstore. Komunyakaa has a new book of poetry coming out this fall called Warhorses, which delves into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual.

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