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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

John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

8 mins; November 10, 2023

Barbara Ras' "Margin of Error"

7 mins; November 09, 2023

Malcolm Guite's "Michaelmas"

6 mins; November 08, 2023

Ogden Nash's Verses for The Carnival of the Animals

10 mins; November 07, 2023

Two for Guy Fawkes Day

10 mins; November 06, 2023

Robert B. Shaw's "Chronometrics"

7 mins; November 03, 2023

Wallace Stevens' "Of the surface of things"

10 mins; November 02, 2023

Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"

10 mins; November 01, 2023

Robert B. Shaw's "Jack O'Lantern"

10 mins; October 31, 2023

E.E. Cummings' "i thank You God for most this amazing day"

10 mins; October 30, 2023

Dylan Thomas' "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

11 mins; October 27, 2023

Christine Perrin's "Reading Telemachus"

10 mins; October 26, 2023

The Saint Crispin's Day Speech

8 mins; October 25, 2023

Carl Sandburg's "Mummy"

12 mins; October 24, 2023

"The Death of Nelson"

9 mins; October 23, 2023

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

9 mins; October 20, 2023

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tide Rises, Tide Falls"

7 mins; October 19, 2023

Dana Gioia's "Metamorphosis"

10 mins; October 17, 2023

Two by Oscar Wilde

14 mins; October 16, 2023

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"

10 mins; October 11, 2023

Theodore Roethke's "Root Cellar"

10 mins; October 10, 2023

J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Tale of Tinuviel"

13 mins; October 09, 2023

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

16 mins; October 03, 2023

Rudyard Kipling's "If"

7 mins; September 28, 2023

Jane Kenyon's "The Blue Bowl"

11 mins; September 27, 2023

T.S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

10 mins; September 26, 2023

Thomas Gray's "Ode to the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes"

12 mins; September 25, 2023

Pablo Neruda's "A Dog Has Died"

9 mins; September 21, 2023

Blaise Cendrars "Menus"

17 mins; September 18, 2023

Roald Dahl's "The Centipede's Song"

10 mins; September 14, 2023

T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats"

8 mins; September 10, 2023

Mary Oliver's "Beside the Waterfall"

5 mins; September 08, 2023

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 44"

10 mins; September 07, 2023

Wendell Berry's "September 2"

6 mins; September 05, 2023

Seamus Heaney's "Scaffolding"

6 mins; September 04, 2023

Rita Dove's "Ars Poetica"

8 mins; September 01, 2023

Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology"

8 mins; August 28, 2023

Billy Collins' "Introduction to Poetry"

7 mins; August 23, 2023

Edgar Allan Poe's "Sonnet to Science"

7 mins; August 22, 2023

Emily Dickinson's "As Imperceptibly as Grief"

8 mins; August 21, 2023

Philip Larkin's "Mother, Summer, I"

11 mins; August 15, 2023

Thomas Lux's "Cow Chases Boys"

9 mins; August 14, 2023

Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"

13 mins; August 11, 2023

John Ashbery's "Crossroads in the Past"

10 mins; July 27, 2023

Matthea Harvey's "In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden"

6 mins; July 26, 2023

Ted Kooser's "In the Basement of the Goodwill Store"

10 mins; July 25, 2023

Lord Dunsany's "A Dirge of Victory"

13 mins; July 24, 2023

Denise Levertov's "Witness"

4 mins; July 20, 2023

Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"

6 mins; July 19, 2023

Mary Oliver's "Storage"

10 mins; July 18, 2023

Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Onion"

10 mins; July 12, 2023

Thomas Merton's "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway"

10 mins; July 07, 2023

Donald Hall's "Oxcart Man"

12 mins; July 06, 2023

Walt Whitman's "Election Day, November, 1884

17 mins; July 05, 2023

Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"

15 mins; July 04, 2023

Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"

8 mins; July 03, 2023

Thomas Lux' "Refrigerator, 1957"

15 mins; June 29, 2023

Emily Dickinson's "A Little Dog That Wags Its Tail"

6 mins; June 28, 2023

Frank O'Hara's "Cambridge"

7 mins; June 27, 2023

A. E. Stallings' "Like"

12 mins; June 21, 2023

Muso Soseki "Magnificent Peak"

5 mins; June 20, 2023

Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"

5 mins; June 19, 2023

Kathleen Norris' "Little Girls in Church"

9 mins; June 18, 2023

Theodore Roethke's "Moss-gathering"

7 mins; June 15, 2023

Robert Herrick's "To Daffodils"

10 mins; June 14, 2023

W. B. Yeats' "Adam's Curse"

10 mins; June 13, 2023

W. H. Auden's "Their Lonely Betters"

8 mins; June 09, 2023

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Bed in Summer"

4 mins; June 08, 2023

2 Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

10 mins; June 07, 2023

Robert Hass' "The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate"

8 mins; June 06, 2023

Christian Wiman's "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs"

9 mins; June 02, 2023

John Masefield's "Sea Fever"

10 mins; June 01, 2023

Jim Daniels' "American Cheese"

8 mins; May 30, 2023

3 Poems for Memorial Day

5 mins; May 29, 2023

Ursula K. LeGuin's "Leaves"

5 mins; May 26, 2023

John Betjeman's "A Subaltern's Love Song"

9 mins; May 25, 2023

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"

6 mins; May 24, 2023

Jane Kenyon's "Dutch Interiors"

7 mins; May 23, 2023

Seamus Heaney's "May"

7 mins; May 22, 2023

The Daily Poem Is Back!

3 mins; May 19, 2023

Joy Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

6 mins; May 10, 2022

Christina Rossetti's "Sonnets Are Full of Love"

5 mins; May 09, 2022

William Blake's "A Poison Tree"

5 mins; May 06, 2022

Caroline Mellor's "We Need to Teach the Children the Old Words"

10 mins; May 01, 2022

Ted Kooser's "Daddy Longlegs"

4 mins; April 28, 2022

Seamus Heaney's "Three-Piece Suit"

7 mins; April 27, 2022

Louise Gluck's "Averno"

8 mins; April 25, 2022

Claude McKay's "Easter Flower"

4 mins; April 18, 2022

The Dream of the Rood

9 mins; April 15, 2022

Tyree Daye's "Where She Planted Hydrangeas"

6 mins; April 04, 2022

Wendy Cope's "The Orange"

7 mins; April 01, 2022

Amy Gertsler's "In Perpetual Spring"

4 mins; March 24, 2022

Billy Collins' "Today"

4 mins; March 23, 2022

John Koethe's "The Late Wisconsin Spring"

10 mins; March 22, 2022

James Joyce's "Song"

6 mins; March 18, 2022

Howard Nemerov's "Adam and Eve Later in Life"

4 mins; March 15, 2022

Margaret Hasse's "Day after Daylight Savings Time"

5 mins; March 14, 2022

Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

6 mins; March 08, 2022

A. E. Russell's "Forgiveness"

8 mins; March 07, 2022

Paul Pastor's "Letter to My Sons"

7 mins; March 02, 2022

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