Four Graduations and a Wedding Part IV: This Ones for the Parents

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 27, 2020

Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, and former Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019, delivers the final commencement address to the series to the Class of 2020.  Then Charlotte Alter, national correspondent for TIME, and author of the new book The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America (Viking, 2020), talks about the world that graduates will be entering, and responds to listener phone calls from the parents of graduates.

 

 Tracy K. Smith's commencement address:

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