HBOA host of other musicians, artists and celebrities, including Courtney Love, are reciting the Emma Lazarus poem “The New Colossus,” written in 1883 and famously engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty, for the upcoming HBO documentary Liberty: Mother of Exiles.
Along with Love, who reads the “wretched refuse of your teeming shore” line, other participants include Lizzo, Andy Cohen, Jessica Chastain, RuPaul, Whoopi Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper, Regina Spektor, Charo, Big Freedia, Monica Lewinsky, and Wanye Brady.
You can listen to the star-studded reading now streaming on YouTube.
Liberty: Mother of Exiles, which explores the history and impact of the Statue of Liberty, premieres on HBO October 17.
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