The Daily Poem
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Miroslav Holub's "Napoleon"
2 mins; August 18, 2025
John Keats' "To Sleep"
2 mins; August 15, 2025
William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt..."
7 mins; August 13, 2025
Live: William Carlos Williams' "The Fool's Song"
15 mins; August 11, 2025
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Prize Jelly"
2 mins; August 08, 2025
Malcolm Guite's "Transfiguration"
5 mins; August 06, 2025
Terrence Hayes’ “The Same City”
3 mins; August 04, 2025
Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"
2 mins; August 01, 2025
Philip Appleman's "Anniversary"
2 mins; July 31, 2025
John Donne's "The Anniversary"
3 mins; July 30, 2025
Rhina P. Espaillat's "Gardening"
4 mins; July 28, 2025
Carole Boston Weatherford's "Sidewalk Chalk"
3 mins; July 25, 2025
Wendell Berry's "A Parting"
3 mins; July 23, 2025
Karina Borowicz's "September Tomatoes"
4 mins; July 21, 2025
Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist"
2 mins; July 18, 2025
William Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned"
5 mins; July 16, 2025
Vachel Lindsay's "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
5 mins; July 14, 2025
Roger Woddis' "Ethics for Everyman"
2 mins; July 11, 2025
"Old English Riddle no. 26" (trans. Roy M. Liuzza)
3 mins; July 09, 2025
Louise Imogen Guiney's "John Brown: A Paradox"
4 mins; July 07, 2025
Robert Lowell's "July in Washington"
2 mins; July 04, 2025
Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Garden Lore"
2 mins; July 02, 2025
Tracy K. Smith’s “The Good Life”
5 mins; June 30, 2025
G. K. Chesterton’s “The Secret People”
5 mins; June 27, 2025
John Donne’s “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
3 mins; June 25, 2025
William Blake’s Introduction to Songs of Experience
3 mins; June 23, 2025
John Keats’ “Happy is England”
3 mins; June 20, 2025
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
5 mins; June 18, 2025
Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"
7 mins; June 16, 2025
Simon Curtis's "Satie, at the End of Term"
2 mins; June 13, 2025
Theodore Roethke's "Cuttings"
4 mins; June 11, 2025
David Wojahn's "Pentecost"
4 mins; June 09, 2025
Bert Leston Taylor's "Canopus"
2 mins; June 06, 2025
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Conscientious Objector"
3 mins; June 04, 2025
Jeanne Murray Walker's "The Music Before the Music"
5 mins; June 02, 2025
Hilaire Belloc's "Lord Finchley"
3 mins; May 30, 2025
Timothy Murphy's "Mentor"
4 mins; May 28, 2025
John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields"
3 mins; May 26, 2025
Seamus Heaney's "Scaffolding"
2 mins; May 23, 2025
Emily Dickinson's "The saddest noise, the sweetest noise"
4 mins; May 21, 2025
Bill Knott's "An Instructor's Dream"
5 mins; May 19, 2025
Andrew Barton Paterson's "The Man From Ironbark"
4 mins; May 16, 2025
Fernando Valverde's "Edgar Allan Poe Is Reached at the Baltimore Harbor by the Shadows That Pursue Him"
4 mins; May 14, 2025
Marya Zaturensky's "The Girl Takes Her Place Among the Mothers"
6 mins; May 12, 2025
Henry Sambrooke Leigh's "The Twins"
3 mins; May 09, 2025
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"
8 mins; May 07, 2025
William Cowper's "The Poplar Field"
3 mins; May 05, 2025
Larry K. Richman's "The Joys of House Wrecking"
4 mins; May 02, 2025
Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales"
5 mins; April 30, 2025
John Keats' "This Living Hand"
4 mins; April 28, 2025
E. E. Cummings' "anyone lived in a pretty how town"
4 mins; April 25, 2025
Walter de la Mare's "Good-bye"
5 mins; April 23, 2025
Scott Cairns' "Coracle"
3 mins; April 21, 2025
T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker IV”
4 mins; April 18, 2025
Carl Sandburg's "Buffalo Dusk"
5 mins; April 16, 2025
J. R. R. Tolkien's "When Spring Unfolds the Beechen Leaf"
5 mins; April 14, 2025
Franz Wright's "The Raising of Lazarus"
6 mins; April 11, 2025
Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad"
7 mins; April 09, 2025
Mary Oliver's "Breakage"
5 mins; April 07, 2025
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (selections)
8 mins; April 04, 2025
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Dungeon"
4 mins; April 02, 2025
William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
12 mins; March 31, 2025
Hilaire Belloc's "The Scorpion"
2 mins; March 28, 2025
Oliver Goldsmith's "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"
3 mins; March 26, 2025
Two Poems for the Annunciation
6 mins; March 25, 2025
David Wagoner's "For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop"
6 mins; March 24, 2025
Sarah Lindsay's "Zucchini Shofar"
4 mins; March 21, 2025
Siegfried Sassoon's "Attack"
5 mins; March 19, 2025
Seamus Heaney's "Digging"
7 mins; March 17, 2025
Thomas Parnell's "The Book-Worm"
6 mins; March 14, 2025
Jonathan Swift's "The Character of Sir Robert Walpole"
2 mins; March 12, 2025
Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"
9 mins; March 10, 2025
Richard Wilbur's "A Dubious Night"
10 mins; March 07, 2025
T. S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday"
12 mins; March 05, 2025
Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"
8 mins; March 03, 2025
Rudyard Kipling's "The Camel's Hump"
4 mins; February 28, 2025
Langston Hughes' "Dreams"
4 mins; February 26, 2025
Richard Henry Horne's "The Plough"
9 mins; February 24, 2025
Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"
6 mins; February 21, 2025
Gary Soto's "Oranges"
8 mins; February 19, 2025
Maurice Manning's "A Plank from the Platform"
6 mins; February 17, 2025
Wendell Berry's "Loving You Has Taught Me..."
9 mins; February 14, 2025
W. H. Auden's "Night Mail"
6 mins; February 12, 2025
Anne Brontë's "The North Wind"
4 mins; February 10, 2025
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" pt. 2
6 mins; February 07, 2025
Zbigniew Herbert's "The Salt of the Earth"
10 mins; February 05, 2025
Ted Kooser's "So This Is Nebraska"
6 mins; February 03, 2025
Phyllis McGinley's "Lament for a Wavering Viewpoint"
4 mins; January 31, 2025
John Keats' "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"
8 mins; January 29, 2025
Mary Oliver's "First Snow"
7 mins; January 27, 2025
G. K. Chesterton's "Stilton and Milton"
5 mins; January 24, 2025
John Keble's "The Accession"
5 mins; January 22, 2025
Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"
10 mins; January 20, 2025
Billy Collins' "Thesaurus"
6 mins; January 17, 2025
John Davies' "Nosce Teipsum: of Human Knowledge"
12 mins; January 15, 2025
Ted Kooser's Blizzard Voices
4 mins; January 13, 2025
Kingsley Amis' "A Bookshop Idyll"
4 mins; January 10, 2025
A. E. Stallings' "Scissors"
6 mins; January 08, 2025
Richard Wilbur's "A Wedding Toast"
7 mins; January 06, 2025
Philip Appleman's "To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year"
11 mins; January 03, 2025