“Monet’s Waterlilies” by Robert Hayden
Amanda Holmes reads Robert Hayden’s “ Monet’s Waterlilies .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericans...
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“To Lallie (Outside the British Museum)” by Amy Levy
Amanda Holmes reads Amy Levy’s “ To Lallie (Outside the British Museum) .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcas...
“Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh” by Thomas James
Amanda Holmes reads Thomas James’s “ Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcas...
“Psalm 102” by Mary Sidney Herbert
Amanda Holmes reads Mary Sidney Herbert’s translation of Psalm 102 . Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@thea...
“Cubistic Body World” by Carolyn Rodgers
Amanda Holmes reads Carolyn Rodgers’s “ Cubistic Body World .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamerica...
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St Vincent Millay
Amanda Holmes reads Edna St Vincent Millay’s “ What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead)...
“Ithaka” by C. P. Cavafy
Amanda Holmes reads C. P. Cavafy’s “ Ithaka ,” translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Have a suggestion for a poem...
“Everybody Who Is Dead” by Frank Stanford
Amanda Holmes reads Frank Stanford’s “ Everybody Who Is Dead .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theameric...
“The Giver” by James Baldwin
Amanda Holmes reads James Baldwin’s “ The Giver .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org...
“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!” by Emily Dickinson
Amanda Holmes reads Emily Dickinson’s “ Wild Nights—Wild Nights! ” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theame...
“Homecoming” by Henry Sloss
Amanda Holmes reads Henry Sloss’s “ Homecoming .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org....
“Now That I Am Forever With Child” by Audre Lorde
Amanda Holmes reads Audre Lorde’s “ Now That I Am Forever With Child. ” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@t...
“The End of March” by Elizabeth Bishop
Amanda Holmes reads Elizabeth Bishop’s “ The End of March .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericans...
“The Idea of Order at Key West” by Wallace Stevens
Amanda Holmes reads Wallace Stevens’s “ The Idea of Order at Key West .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@...
“The Bean-Stalk” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Amanda Holmes reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “ The Bean-Stalk .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamer...
“A Field of Finches Without Sight Still Singing” by Grace Cavalieri
Amanda Holmes reads Grace Cavalieri’s “ A Field of Finches Without Sight Still Singing .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? E...
“Sure on This Shining Night” by James Agee
Amanda Holmes reads James Agee’s “ Sure on This Shining Night .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theameri...
“Hope” by Lisel Mueller
Amanda Holmes reads Lisel Mueller’s “ Hope .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If...
“Days of 1964” by James Merrill
Amanda Holmes reads James Merrill’s “ Days of 1964 .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar....
“For Grace, After a Party” by Frank O’Hara
Amanda Holmes reads Frank O’Hara’s “ For Grace, After a Party .” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theameri...