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Every weekday, Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world – through poetry. Produced in partnership with the Poetry Foundation and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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478: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

September 23, 2020 00:05:00

Today's poem is There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by Kevin Young.

This week, we're featuring poems related to music. Songs that move and change us. Songs that heal us. What can we discover about ourselves, when we listen to music? A lot, it seems.