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The Daily Poem

The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, The Daily Poem curates a broad and generous audio anthology of the best poetry ever written, read-aloud by David Kern and an assortment of various contributors. Some lite commentary is included and the shorter poems are often read twice, as time permits. The Daily Poem is presented by Goldberry Studios. dailypoempod.substack.com

Sean Johnson's "How many beards gild the lapses of time"

2 mins; April 01, 2026

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "One morn I left him in his bed"

5 mins; March 30, 2026

Seamus Heaney's "Poem"

5 mins; March 27, 2026

Rainer Maria Rilke's "Annunciation to Mary"

3 mins; March 25, 2026

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Dandelions"

4 mins; March 23, 2026

Naomi Shihab Nye's "My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop"

3 mins; March 20, 2026

W. H. Auden's "Funeral Blues"

5 mins; March 18, 2026

Thomas Hardy's "During Wind and Rain"

4 mins; March 16, 2026

William Carlos Williams' "Love Song"

5 mins; March 13, 2026

Rhina P. Espaillat’s “Butchering”

4 mins; March 11, 2026

Beowulf prepares for battle

4 mins; March 09, 2026

T. S. Eliot's "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"

4 mins; March 06, 2026

Robert Graves' Proem to The Iliad

5 mins; March 04, 2026

Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"

4 mins; March 02, 2026

Wendy Cope's "Men and Their Boring Arguments"

2 mins; February 27, 2026

Anna Kamienska's "On the Threshold of the Poem"

4 mins; February 25, 2026

Charles Lamb's "Cleanliness"

6 mins; February 23, 2026

Friedrich von Schiller's "Light and Warmth"

6 mins; February 20, 2026

T. S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday (III)"

6 mins; February 18, 2026

Thomas Campion's "When to Her Lute Corinna Sings"

4 mins; February 16, 2026

Aileen Fisher's "I Like It When It’s Mizzly"

4 mins; February 13, 2026

Marianne Moore's "No Swan So Fine"

5 mins; February 11, 2026

Robert Frost's "Not to Keep"

3 mins; February 09, 2026

Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats”

3 mins; February 06, 2026

Pablo Neruda's "Ode to My Socks"

2 mins; February 04, 2026

William Stafford's "A Message from the Wanderer"

3 mins; February 02, 2026

F. S. Flint's "London, my beautiful"

2 mins; January 30, 2026

Scott Cairns' "Idiot Psalm 12"

4 mins; January 28, 2026

Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life"

6 mins; January 26, 2026

Jane Taylor's "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"

2 mins; January 23, 2026

Dylan Thomas' "Prologue"

6 mins; January 21, 2026

Wendell Berry's "Sabbath IV, 1996"

2 mins; January 19, 2026

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Feast”

4 mins; January 16, 2026

William Wordsworth's "Character of the Happy Warrior"

5 mins; January 14, 2026

William Blake's "The Ecchoing Green"

4 mins; January 12, 2026

Alfred Noyes' "Daddy Fell Into the Pond"

2 mins; January 09, 2026

Paul J. Pastor's "The Oracle"

5 mins; January 07, 2026

Philip Appleman’s “To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year”

4 mins; January 05, 2026

A. A. Milne’s “King John’s Christmas”

4 mins; January 02, 2026

Clare Bevan's "Just Doing My Job"

3 mins; December 31, 2025

Cecil Day-Lewis' "The Christmas Tree"

7 mins; December 29, 2025

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Christmas Bells"

3 mins; December 25, 2025

Anna Kamienska's "Elijah Widow"

7 mins; December 24, 2025

Helen Maria Williams' "To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris"

3 mins; December 22, 2025

W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 5

5 mins; December 19, 2025

W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 4

8 mins; December 18, 2025

W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 3

8 mins; December 17, 2025

W. H. Auden's "For the Time Being" pt. 2

9 mins; December 16, 2025

W. H. Auden "For the Time Being" pt. 1

9 mins; December 15, 2025

Ted Kooser's "Christmas Mail"

4 mins; December 12, 2025

John Robert Lee's "XIX: I often wonder whether the prodigal son"

9 mins; December 10, 2025

Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow"

3 mins; December 08, 2025

Mary Mapes Dodge's "A Song for St. Nicholas"

6 mins; December 05, 2025

Luci Shaw's "Holding On"

2 mins; December 04, 2025

John Keats' "In drear nighted December"

6 mins; December 03, 2025

Jane Kenyon's "Let Evening Come"

2 mins; December 01, 2025

Dorianne Laux's "A Short History of the Apple"

5 mins; November 28, 2025

Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper"

4 mins; November 26, 2025

William Matthews' "Onions"

8 mins; November 24, 2025

George Herbert's "Anagram"

3 mins; November 21, 2025

Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"

9 mins; November 19, 2025

Robert Burns' "Epistle to a Young Friend"

6 mins; November 17, 2025

Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility"

2 mins; November 14, 2025

Robert Hass' "After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa"

4 mins; November 12, 2025

John Keats' "To Autumn"

3 mins; November 10, 2025

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone"

3 mins; November 07, 2025

George Starbuck's "Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line"

5 mins; November 05, 2025

Robert Frost's "My November Guest"

6 mins; November 03, 2025

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Lemon Pie"

4 mins; October 31, 2025

Seamus Heaney's "Follower"

2 mins; October 29, 2025

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"

9 mins; October 27, 2025

Ogden Nash's "A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty"

2 mins; October 24, 2025

Wendell Berry's "Sabbath Poem III, 1994"

5 mins; October 22, 2025

R. S. Thomas' "The Fisherman"

3 mins; October 20, 2025

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Root of the Boot"

4 mins; October 17, 2025

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

6 mins; October 15, 2025

Robert Frost's "Birches"

5 mins; October 13, 2025

Charles and Mary Lamb's "Feigned Courage"

3 mins; October 10, 2025

Ted Kooser's "How to Foretell a Change in the Weather"

3 mins; October 08, 2025

Linda Pastan's "The Dogwoods"

5 mins; October 06, 2025

Lewis Carroll's "You Are Old, Father William"

5 mins; October 03, 2025

John Donne's "The Relic"

5 mins; October 01, 2025

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Last of the Old Gods"

6 mins; September 29, 2025

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Fable"

2 mins; September 26, 2025

Geoffrey Hill's "Genesis"

4 mins; September 24, 2025

Prince Hal's soliloquy from Henry IV, pt.1 ("herein will I imitate the sun")

5 mins; September 22, 2025

Phineas Fletcher's "A Litany"

2 mins; September 19, 2025

Richard Wilbur's "The Writer"

5 mins; September 17, 2025

Alfred Tennyson's "In Memoriam..." 1-3

4 mins; September 15, 2025

Kenn Nesbitt's "Our Teacher's Not a Zombie"

1 min; September 12, 2025

Donald Hall's "An Old Life"

4 mins; September 10, 2025

Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Bean Eaters"

4 mins; September 08, 2025

Lucy Maud Montgomery's "A Request"

2 mins; September 05, 2025

Linda Pastan's "Something About the Trees"

3 mins; September 03, 2025

Jane Kenyon's "Three Songs at the End of Summer"

3 mins; September 01, 2025

Ogden Nash's "The People Upstairs"

2 mins; August 29, 2025

Emily Dickinson's "How soft a Caterpillar steps —"

3 mins; August 27, 2025

Randall Jarrell's "The Lost World"

9 mins; August 25, 2025

Rudyard Kipling’s “The Ballad of the Clampherdown”

5 mins; August 22, 2025

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Fire of Drift-wood"

5 mins; August 20, 2025

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