Kwame Alexander (Extended)

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.4 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Emmy Award-winner and bestselling author Kwame Alexander tells Stephen how he first got interested in poetry as a young man, and he reads a poem that appears in his latest book, “This Is the Honey: An Anthology Of Contemporary Black Poets.”

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0:42.8	Stay out of my way.
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