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Kevin Young Reads “Dear John, Dear Coltrane” by Michael S. Harper

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Poet Kevin Young, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and editor of the Library of America anthology "African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song," reads Michael S. Harper's 1966 poem inspired by the saxophonist. Young provides commentary on “Dear John, Dear Coltrane” here.