Actors from the [Boston Poets Theatre](https://https://www.poetstheatre.org/boston-poets) present a bouquet of short excerpts from great oratory and famous poems — all echoing originals first delivered in the vicinity of Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, the State House, the Boston Athenaeum, the Tremont Temple, and the Boston Public Library. The event honors Boston’s rich legacy of great orators and literary and political figures of great variety and distinction.   ## The Program Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn and "On John Brown" ready by Ben Evett John Hancock read by Steven Barkhimer Daniel Webster's speech at Bunker Hill Monument read by Bob Scanlan Frederick Douglass's "Fourth of July for the Negro" read by Shanae Burch William Lloyd Garrison's "Let the South Go" read by David Gullette Oliver Wendell Holmes' "The Chambered Nautilus" recited by Steven Barkhimer Ida B. Wells' "On Lynch Laws" read by Shanae Burch John F. Kennedy read by David Gullette Richard Wilbur read by Ben Evett