Dawn’s Awake!

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Dawn’s Awake! by Otto Leland Bohanan.

This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 9, 2020.
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Otto Leland Bohanan was born around 1895 In Washington, D.C. He graduated from Howard University and taught English at the Catholic University. He also worked as a music instructor at DeWitt Clinton High School and died in 1932. This poem taken from James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938). The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1922. - Summary by David Lawrence