R. S. Thomas' "This"
Today’s poem uses the clever manipulation of a symbol to tease out the heart of male communication. Happy reading. This is a public episode....
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The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and E..E Cummings, The Daily Poem curates a broad and generous audio anthology...
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Ogden Nash's "Taboo to Boot"
Today’s poem is guaranteed to make you itch. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers o...
Robert Burns' "John Barleycorn"
Today’s poem is about the necessary death and resurrection of the titular figure. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
A. R. Ammons' "Poetics"
Today’s poem is about the attention needed to find…a poem. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
from Malcolm Guite's "Galahad and the Grail"
Today’s poem, singing of the first trial of Sir Galahad, is an excerpt from Malcolm Guite’s Arthurian ballad, Galahad and the Grail . Happy...
Norman Maccaig's "Interruption to a Journey"
Today’s poem captures the stab and indelible imprint of unintended destruction. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to di...
James Joyce's "On the Beach at Fontana"
Today’s poem is from an author seldom associated with poetry today, though in his lifetime his verse garnered considerable recognition. Happ...
Edward Rowland Sill's "The Fool's Prayer"
Today’s poem presents two kinds of fools–those who know they need mercy, and those who don’t. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If yo...
Ellis Parker Butler's "The Final Tax"
Today’s poem is very much on-brand for Butler, whose best-known short story, “Pigs is Pigs,” concerns “a bureaucratic stationmaster who insi...
R. S. Thomas' "The Bright Field"
In today’s poem the speaker has seen the light. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscriber...
Jonathan Henderson Brooks' "The Resurrection"
Now Calvary was loveliness:/Lilies that flowered thereupon Pulled off the white moon’s pallid dress,/And put the morning’s vesture on. This...
"Pangur Ban"
Today’s poem, translated by Robin Flowers, was originally written in Old Irish inside an 8th-century scribe’s copy of St. Paul’s epistles. H...
William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 99"
Today’s poem is one of Shakespeare’s “irregular” sonnets–he’s got 99 problems (most of them flowers), but strict obedience to the requiremen...
Nicholas Samaras' "The Second Death of Lazarus"
Today’s poem imagines the long life of Lazarus as he awaits, like Eliot’s magi, “another death.” Happy reading. This is a public episode. If...
Sean Johnson's "How many beards gild the lapses of time"
Today’s poem is a hirsute parody of a much better poem. Sorry in advance. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...
Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "One morn I left him in his bed"
In the 19th century, poems about the loss of children became a little genre of their own. Today’s poem is a decidedly uncharacteristic examp...
Seamus Heaney's "Poem"
Today’s poem answers the question you never thought to ask: what do a poem, a barnyard, and a marriage have in common? Happy reading. This i...
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Annunciation to Mary"
In today’s poem, Rilke (trans. J.B. Leishman) imagines the Annunciation from Gabriel’s perspective. Happy reading. This is a public episode....
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Dandelions"
Today’s poem wonders what it means to recognize and appreciate a gift. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss thi...
Naomi Shihab Nye's "My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop"
Today’s poem contemplates the ways and “why”s of saying nothing, before culminating in a shattering pun on “nothing.” Happy reading. This is...
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