Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “The Changing Light”
Today’s poem traces the waxing and waning of lights around the Bay City. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss t...
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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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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Knight’s Tomb”
In today’s poem, arboreal imagery indicates the fate of a knight’s soul. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss t...
Vernon Watkins’ “Camelot”
Today’s poem feels the deep sadnesses of Arthurian myth in the poet’s native soil. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
Lisel Mueller’s “When I am Asked”
Today’s poem offers poetry as a survival mechanism. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscr...
Charles G. Eastman’s “The Yellow Corn”
Today’s poem exults unselfconsciously in a rich harvest. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other s...
Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking”
Today’s poem meander’s sleepily but steadily through an irregular rhyme scheme and looks back on a day’s work–if not more. Happy reading. Th...
Tracy K. Smith’s “Einstein’s Mother”
Today’s poem offers an implicit encouragement to harried mothers. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this wit...
Ted Kooser’s “Applesauce”
Today’s poem taps into the powerful connection between food, love, and nostalgia. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...
Emily Dickinson’s “A Thunderstorm”
Today’s poem is especially topical as The Daily Poem returns after a brief storm delay. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd li...
Seamus Heaney’s “Storm on the Island”
Today’s poem weathers the unfriendliness of the natural world. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with o...
William Shakespeare’s “As fast as thou shalt wane...” (Sonnet 11)
In today’s poem the bard urges his subject not to bury the gifts of Nature in the grave. Happy reading. Want to send your teen to a day of S...
Li Bai’s “Taking Leave of a Friend”
Today’s poem–a masterclass in subtlety and imagery–makes you feel the scale of the farewell before it arrives. Happy reading. This is a publ...
“Sweeney Praises the Trees”
Today’s poem, translated from the Irish by Seamus Heaney, delivers precisely what the title promises. Happy reading. This is a public episod...
Helen Hunt Jackson’s “September”
Today’s poem praises September and mystifies it with a coy turn in the final stanza. Enjoy the last day of this finest of months. Happy read...
Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Yellow Bird”
Today’s poem is a lament over a caged beauty. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers...
Edward Lear’s “How Pleasant To Know...”
Today’s poem is a comic self-portrait in verse from a poet who spent years working as a painter. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”
In today’s poem, death is a country beyond the sea. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscr...
George Herbert’s “The Pulley”
Today’s poem gives us a poet making sense of his restlessness and finding in it the mechanism that draws him upward to God. Happy reading. T...
Marsden Hartley’s “Salutations to a Mouse”
In today’s poem, the poet discovers unexpected value in his writing. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...
Annie Dillard’s “How we spend our days”
Today we are remembering Annie Dillard. Her poem offers not only advice for living, but an approach to understanding a life in retrospect. H...