Esinam Agama performs “After the Winter” by Claude McKay
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Esinam Agama, a student at Tallahassee Collegiate Academy, recites the poem “After the Winter.”
In 2024, Tallahassee Collegiate Academy student Esinam Agama won third place in her school's Poetry Out Loud Competition. Agama recited the poem “After the Winter” by Claude McKay. In this video, Agama performs the poem once again for our cameras. See more of the TCA Poetry Out Loud winning poems at wfsu.org/localroutes. Learn more about the competition at poetryfoundation.org.
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Esinam Agama performs “After the Winter” by Claude McKay
Clip: Season 9 | 1m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
In 2024, Tallahassee Collegiate Academy student Esinam Agama won third place in her school's Poetry Out Loud Competition. Agama recited the poem “After the Winter” by Claude McKay. In this video, Agama performs the poem once again for our cameras. See more of the TCA Poetry Out Loud winning poems at wfsu.org/localroutes. Learn more about the competition at poetryfoundation.org.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipHello, my name is Esinam Agama.
And today the poem that I'll be reciting is After the Winter by Claude McKay.
Some day, when the trees have shed their leaves and against the morning's white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.
We'll turn our faces southward, love, towards the summer isle.
Where bamboo spire the shafted grove and wide mast orchids smile.
And we will seek the quiet hill Where towers the cotton tree.
And leaves the laughing crystal rill.
And works the droning bee.
And we will build a cottage there Beside an open glade, With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near.
And ferns that never fade.
Thank you.
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