Episode 49: "Harlem" by Langston Hughes
Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nPhotograph Info:\nPortrait of American writer and activist Langston Hughes in 1943 (US Library of Congress Archives)\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nThe Poem:\n\n"Harlem"\n\nWhat happens to a dream deferred?\n\nDoes it dry up\n\xa0like a raisin in the sun?\n\xa0Or fester like a sore\u2014\n\xa0And then run?\n\xa0Does it stink like rotten meat?\n\xa0Or crust and sugar over\u2014\n\xa0like a syrupy sweet?\n\nMaybe it just sags\n\xa0like a heavy load.\n\nOr does it explode?