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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

Robert Service's "The Passing of the Year"

5 mins; January 02, 2025

Helen Hunt Jackson's "New Year's Morning"

8 mins; January 01, 2025

T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"

9 mins; December 31, 2024

William Butler Yeats' "The Magi"

8 mins; December 30, 2024

Cecil Day Lewis' "The Christmas Tree"

9 mins; December 27, 2024

W. H. Auden's Conclusion to For the Time Being

5 mins; December 26, 2024

W. H. Auden's "Chorus of Angels"

4 mins; December 25, 2024

J. R. R. Tolkien's "Noel"

3 mins; December 24, 2024

George Herbert's "Love (III)"

9 mins; December 23, 2024

Two Christmas Poems from G. K. Chesterton

4 mins; December 20, 2024

Donald Hall's "Christmas Eve in Whitneyville"

4 mins; December 19, 2024

James Merrill's "Christmas Tree"

4 mins; December 18, 2024

Mary Jo Salter's "Home Movies: A Sort of Ode"

5 mins; December 17, 2024

John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

8 mins; December 16, 2024

Malcolm Guite's "Launde Abbey on Saint Lucy's Day"

3 mins; December 13, 2024

Christina Rossetti's "A Christmas Carol"

9 mins; December 12, 2024

Ezra Pound's "The White Stag"

6 mins; December 11, 2024

Emily Dickinson's "In this short Life that only lasts an hour"

5 mins; December 10, 2024

Mark Strand's "The New Poetry Handbook"

12 mins; December 09, 2024

Malcolm Guite's "St. Nicholas"

3 mins; December 06, 2024

William Carlos Williams' "The Hunters in the Snow"

11 mins; December 05, 2024

Anne Bradstreet's "Verses upon the Burning of our House"

7 mins; December 04, 2024

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Snow-Flakes"

10 mins; December 03, 2024

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Winter-Time"

5 mins; December 02, 2024

Craig Arnold's "Meditation on a Grapefruit"

9 mins; November 29, 2024

Anna Kamieńska's "Small Things"

10 mins; November 28, 2024

Jacqueline Woodson's "lessons"

3 mins; November 27, 2024

Blaise Cendrars' "Menus"

9 mins; November 26, 2024

Bill Holm's "Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe"

7 mins; November 25, 2024

James Matthew Wilson's "Agricola: A Song for Planting

7 mins; November 22, 2024

Wendell Berry's "The Thought of Something Else"

5 mins; November 21, 2024

John Masefield's "Cargoes"

13 mins; November 20, 2024

Emily Dickinson's "I fear a Man of frugal Speech"

5 mins; November 19, 2024

William Blake's "The Tyger"

13 mins; November 18, 2024

Jessica Greenbaum's "A Poem for S."

10 mins; November 15, 2024

Rhina P. Espaillat's "Changeling"

7 mins; November 14, 2024

Sylvia Plath's "Gold Mouths Cry"

10 mins; November 13, 2024

from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hiawatha's Wooing"

6 mins; November 12, 2024

Charles Wolfe's "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"

5 mins; November 11, 2024

Kenneth Grahame's "A Song of Mr. Toad"

4 mins; November 08, 2024

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "A Common Inference"

6 mins; November 07, 2024

Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"

9 mins; November 06, 2024

Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then fiddle."

8 mins; November 05, 2024

Thomas Hardy's "The Shadow on the Stone"

12 mins; November 04, 2024

Luci Shaw's "Judas, Peter"

6 mins; November 01, 2024

Jonathan Swift's "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed"

4 mins; October 31, 2024

Kenn Nesbitt's "Halloween Party"

3 mins; October 30, 2024

William Shakespeare's "Advice to Laertes" (from Hamlet I.3)

4 mins; October 29, 2024

Bob Hicok's "O My Pa-Pa"

17 mins; October 28, 2024

J. R. R. Tolkien's "When winter first begins to bite"

7 mins; October 25, 2024

Henry Taylor's "Somewhere Along the Way"

4 mins; October 24, 2024

Amy Lowell's "Trades"

7 mins; October 23, 2024

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Heaven-Haven"

4 mins; October 22, 2024

Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"

7 mins; October 21, 2024

Billy Collins' "Shoveling Snow With Buddha"

4 mins; October 18, 2024

James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost is on the Punkin"

4 mins; October 17, 2024

John Masefield's "Laugh and Be Merry"

8 mins; October 16, 2024

Donald Hall's "My Son, My Executioner"

6 mins; October 15, 2024

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son"

10 mins; October 14, 2024

Ben Jonson's "On My First Sonne"

6 mins; October 11, 2024

John Keats' "To Autumn"

4 mins; October 10, 2024

David McCord's "Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern"

6 mins; October 09, 2024

Ogden Nash's "A Word to Husbands"

4 mins; October 08, 2024

Walter Savage Landor's "To Robert Browning"

7 mins; October 07, 2024

J. R. R. Tolkien's "Mythopoeia"

13 mins; October 04, 2024

R. S. Thomas' "Poetry for Supper"

8 mins; October 03, 2024

Dorothy Parker's "The Trifler"

4 mins; October 02, 2024

Louis Untermeyer's "A Man"

5 mins; October 01, 2024

William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"

14 mins; September 30, 2024

Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

6 mins; September 27, 2024

Matthew Arnold's "Shakespeare"

6 mins; September 26, 2024

James Wright's "A Blessing"

6 mins; September 25, 2024

Wendy Cope's "Emily Dickinson"

4 mins; September 24, 2024

Donald Hall's "The Baseball Players"

5 mins; September 23, 2024

Richard Wilbur's "Advice to a Prophet"

5 mins; September 20, 2024

Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel"

7 mins; September 19, 2024

Samuel Johnson's "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet"

5 mins; September 18, 2024

Lear and Cordelia ("Come, let's away to prison")

7 mins; September 17, 2024

A. A. Milne's "Us Two"

4 mins; September 16, 2024

Rudyard Kipling's "The Roman Centurion's Song"

7 mins; September 13, 2024

Ted Kooser's "A Happy Birthday"

5 mins; September 12, 2024

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam: 27"

6 mins; September 11, 2024

Alice Dunbar-Nelson's "I Sit and Sew"

10 mins; September 10, 2024

Dorianne Laux's "I Dare You"

8 mins; September 09, 2024

John Donne's "Resurrection"

7 mins; September 06, 2024

John Donne's "Divine Meditation 10: 'Death be not proud...'"

10 mins; September 05, 2024

John Donne's "Divine Meditation 7: 'At the round earth's imagined corners...'"

6 mins; September 04, 2024

John Donne's "Temple"

5 mins; September 03, 2024

John Donne's "Divine Meditation 1"

6 mins; September 02, 2024

Scott Cairns' "Change Your Life"

10 mins; August 30, 2024

Thomas Merton's "The Quickening Of St. John The Baptist"

5 mins; August 29, 2024

Ted Hughes' "The Thought-Fox"

7 mins; August 28, 2024

Mark Strand's "The Prediction"

5 mins; August 27, 2024

John Keats' "On the Sonnet"

7 mins; August 26, 2024

Emily Dickinson's "Wild nights - Wild nights!"

8 mins; August 23, 2024

John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

7 mins; August 22, 2024

Langston Hughes' "Theme For English B"

7 mins; August 21, 2024

Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

6 mins; August 20, 2024

Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"

6 mins; August 19, 2024

Even More Limericks

2 mins; August 19, 2024

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