In this Poetry Moment, Sterling A. Brown reads his poem "After Winter," conjuring moments from a bucolic summer as a boy.
During his childhood, Brown and his family rode the train up from Washington, D.C., and took a horse-drawn wagon to their farm in Laurel. Their acres in Howard County, Maryland, were the setting for this poem, Brown said, with his father as the scarecrow farmer. Dreaming of good crops for his family, the father character talks about "runnin' space" for "the little feller," who was little Sterling.
Brown, a professor at Howard University for 40 years, was later named the District of Columbia's first poet laureate.
Chania Hudson reads an introduction offering background and context for the poet and the poem.
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