“Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch...” Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor recites Emma Lazarus’s 1883 sonnet “The New Colossus,” and chats with Poetry in America television series host Elisa New about the value of poetry.
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