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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Today’s poem is from an author seldom associated with poetry today, though in his lifetime his verse garnered considerable recognition. Happ...
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...
Today’s poem is very much on-brand for Butler, whose best-known short story, “Pigs is Pigs,” concerns “a bureaucratic stationmaster who insi...
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...
Now Calvary was loveliness:/Lilies that flowered thereupon Pulled off the white moon’s pallid dress,/And put the morning’s vesture on. This...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In today’s poem, Rilke (trans. J.B. Leishman) imagines the Annunciation from Gabriel’s perspective. Happy reading. This is a public episode....
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...
Today’s poem contemplates the ways and “why”s of saying nothing, before culminating in a shattering pun on “nothing.” Happy reading. This is...
Today’s poem began its life as a bit of black humor, but lives on as a raw and relatable expression of real grief. Happy reading. This is a...
Today’s poem juxtaposes scenes of summer warmth to scenes of torrential bluster with a seamlessness that would make the best film editor jea...
Today’s poem captures the agonies and ecstacies of thinking about the absent beloved. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like...
Today’s poem employs an image worthy of Homer to touch the stark reality of a mother’s intuition. Happy reading. This is a public episode. I...
Today’s poem is a selection from the Old English, Beowulf, translated by R. M. Liuzza. In these lines, Beowulf prepares for a harrowing show...
Today’s poem answers the question: if cats are the animal world’s “Napoleon of crime,” who is the cat world’s “Napoleon of crime?” Happy rea...
Today’s poem comes from Graves’ verse/prose rendering of Homer’s Iliad, The Anger of Achilles, and highlights the inglorious causes of the T...
Today’s poem is a sonnet for a war-torn world with a collapsing center. “…As the oldest of four children born in rapid succession, Wilfred d...
Today’s poem goes out to all of the women who have been stuck between two pugilistic men at a dinner party. Happy reading. This is a public...
Today’s poem asks: “What happens inside a poem?” Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribe...
Today’s poem is a seemingly innocuous enjoinder to handwashing that nevertheless invites a deeper inspection. Happy reading. This is a publi...
Anyone with children can recognize the degree to which we enter this life “Warm with the noble vows of youth,/Hallowing [one’s] true arm to...
Today’s poem is a selection from Eliot’s profound contemplation of conversion and repentance. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If yo...
In today’s poem, the composer-poet identifies with an object he knows inside and out. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like...
Today’s poem is pure language joy. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acce...
Today’s poem pits art against reality, with the French monarchy as the only clear loser. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd l...
If Robert Frost were a musician, today’s poem might be a B-side to one of his better-known poems. Happy reading. This is a public episode. I...
“may you kiss / the wind then turn from it” Today’s poem is a benediction for boats and, maybe, a lot of other things. Happy reading. This i...
Today’s poem is a contemplation of sometimes-essential footwear that blossoms unexpectedly into a proverb on utility and beauty. Happy readi...
“That’s the way everything in the world is waiting.” Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subsc...
Today’s poem falls somewhere in the middle of a Venn diagram of haiku and English ode. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd lik...
Today’s poem is a song of (sometimes) hidden nearness. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other sub...
Today’s poem is a frank examination of words and their paradoxical power to create and destroy intimacy, bringing forth the deepest self or...
Today’s poem has taken on a life of its own; we return, for a moment, to its humble beginnings. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If...
Today’s poem, unusual in its structure and rhyme, turned out to be more of an epilogue: Thomas composed it for inclusion in his Collected Po...
I may be the only other man who has had some version of the cold-night-existential experience described in today’s poem, but I doubt it. Hap...
Today’s poem is one in which “increase of appetite grows by what it feeds on” (or so she says). Happy reading. This is a public episode. If...
“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he/That every man in arms should wish to be?” In today’s poem, Wordsworth asks unfamiliar questions. Happy...
Today’s poem is a snapshot of a lost world. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or...
Today’s poem reminds us of a father’s value. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers o...