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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

Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"

8 mins; March 01, 2022

Lyuba Yakimchuk's "Prayer"

7 mins; February 28, 2022

W.H. Auden's "Doggerel for a Senior Citizen"

6 mins; February 24, 2022

James Matthew Wilson's "Before the Gates"

10 mins; February 23, 2022

W.S. Merwin's "Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise"

6 mins; February 22, 2022

Jericho Brown's "The Card Tables"

9 mins; February 21, 2022

Two Responsive Poems by John and Lonnie Balaban

5 mins; February 14, 2022

Philip Larkin's "The Mower"

5 mins; February 11, 2022

W.H. Auden's "A New Year's Greeting"

9 mins; February 10, 2022

Emily Bronte's "Spellbound"

7 mins; February 07, 2022

Robert Herrick's "Upon Julias' Clothes"

6 mins; February 04, 2022

Rudyard Kipling's "The Law of the Jungle"

5 mins; February 03, 2022

Maurice Manning "The Winter of My Discontent'

7 mins; February 02, 2022

Lucy Shaw's "Mending"

6 mins; February 01, 2022

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"

8 mins; January 31, 2022

Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning"

8 mins; January 21, 2022

Harmony Holiday's "Microwave Popcorn"

8 mins; January 17, 2022

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Woods in Winter"

7 mins; January 11, 2022

Li-Young Lee's "Eating Together"

5 mins; January 10, 2022

Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"

8 mins; December 30, 2021

Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"

7 mins; December 29, 2021

U.A. Fanthorpe's "The Sheepdog"

3 mins; December 28, 2021

Elinor Wylie's "Velvet Shoes"

8 mins; December 27, 2021

William Carlos Williams' "The Gift"

7 mins; December 20, 2021

George Santayana's "Cape Cod"

7 mins; December 16, 2021

From "W.H. Auden's "For the Time Being"

7 mins; December 15, 2021

Mary Oliver's "Preparing the House"

5 mins; December 14, 2021

Nancy Willard's "The Snow Arrives After Long Silence"

5 mins; December 13, 2021

Malcolm Guite's "A Sonnet for Nicholas Ferrar"

7 mins; December 06, 2021

Edward Thomas' "Bird's Nests"

4 mins; December 02, 2021

Jim Harrison's "Solstice Litany"

8 mins; December 01, 2021

William Blake's "The Garden of Love"

6 mins; November 30, 2021

Jamaal May's "There Are Birds Here"

7 mins; November 15, 2021

Denise Levertov's "A Tree Telling of Orpheus"

10 mins; November 10, 2021

Ivan Turgenev's "A Dream"

6 mins; November 09, 2021

Kara Jackson's "The World Is About to End and My Grandparents Are in Love"

6 mins; November 08, 2021

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Autumn Idleness"

6 mins; November 04, 2021

Laurence Binyon's "The Burning of the Leaves"

8 mins; November 03, 2021

Wendell Berry's "Wild Geese"

7 mins; November 02, 2021

Sara Teasdale's "The Writer"

8 mins; October 18, 2021

Naomi Shihab Nye's "Fundamentalism"

7 mins; August 23, 2021

Bryana Joy's "Kabul Airport"

6 mins; August 18, 2021

Sir Walter Scott's "Lochinvar"

7 mins; August 16, 2021

William Carlos Williams' "A Coronal"

8 mins; August 09, 2021

Margaret Cavendish's "A Lady Dressed by Youth"

6 mins; August 05, 2021

Katherine Anne Porter's "Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake"

5 mins; August 04, 2021

Elinor Wylie's "Atavism"

5 mins; August 03, 2021

John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

5 mins; July 26, 2021

Seamus Heaney's "The Rain Stick"

4 mins; July 23, 2021

Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"

8 mins; July 22, 2021

Alun Lewis' "Today It Has Rained"

8 mins; July 21, 2021

Theodore Roethke's "The Pike"

7 mins; July 20, 2021

Billy Collins' "Fishing on the Susquehanna in July"

9 mins; July 19, 2021

Marge Piercy's "Colors Passing Through Us"

9 mins; July 12, 2021

Emily Dickinson's "Like Rain it Soundeth"

7 mins; July 07, 2021

John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"

7 mins; July 06, 2021

John Haines' "Fourth of July at Santa Ynez"

9 mins; July 05, 2021

Mary Oliver's "The Riders"

6 mins; July 02, 2021

Dana Gioia's "California Hills in August"

6 mins; July 01, 2021

T.S. Eliot's "Cape Ann"

6 mins; June 30, 2021

Elisabeth Jennings' "English Wildflowers"

6 mins; June 29, 2021

Amy Lowell's "Bath"

7 mins; June 28, 2021

Robinson Jeffers' "Carmel Point"

7 mins; June 21, 2021

Adrian Rice's "The Double Crown"

9 mins; June 18, 2021

Jane Kenyon's "Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer"

3 mins; June 04, 2021

Thomas Hardy's "Overlooking the River Stour"

6 mins; June 03, 2021

John McCrae's "The Unconquered Dead"

7 mins; June 02, 2021

Walt Whitman's "On the Beach at Night Alone"

6 mins; June 01, 2021

Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"

8 mins; May 24, 2021

Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"

13 mins; May 21, 2021

Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins"

12 mins; May 20, 2021

Joy Harjo's "Once the World Was Perfect"

7 mins; May 19, 2021

W.B. Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus"

6 mins; May 18, 2021

Natasha Tretheway's "What the Body Can Say"

8 mins; May 17, 2021

Ted Kooser's "Mother"

8 mins; May 11, 2021

Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"

7 mins; May 09, 2021

Sharon Olds "The Race"

8 mins; May 06, 2021

John Keats' "After dark vapors"

5 mins; May 05, 2021

Lines from Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost"

6 mins; May 04, 2021

Chase Twichell's "Cloud of Unknowing"

9 mins; May 03, 2021

Edna St Vincent Millay's "Sonnet 3"

7 mins; April 27, 2021

William Carlos Williams' "the farmer in deep thought"

6 mins; April 26, 2021

Terrence Hayes' "We Should Make a Documentary about Spades"

5 mins; April 22, 2021

Tracy K. Smith's "The Good Life"

6 mins; April 21, 2021

Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad"

6 mins; April 20, 2021

Robert Hass' "Meditation at Lagunitas"

8 mins; April 19, 2021

Grace Schulman's "Because"

6 mins; April 16, 2021

Charlotte Mew's "I So Liked Spring"

3 mins; April 15, 2021

Laurie Lee's "April Rise"

7 mins; April 14, 2021

Rhina Espaillat's "Things That Go"

5 mins; April 13, 2021

A.E. Housman's "Smooth Between Sea and Land"

9 mins; April 12, 2021

Rosalie Grayer's "Altar Smoke"

6 mins; April 05, 2021

From "The Dream of the Rood"

9 mins; April 02, 2021

The World's Greatest Poem

3 mins; April 01, 2021

A.E. Housman's "A Lent Lilly"

5 mins; March 31, 2021

G.K. Chesterton's "The Donkey"

5 mins; March 30, 2021

Amy Lowell's "Opal"

7 mins; March 29, 2021

Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Ledore"

5 mins; March 26, 2021

e.e. cummings' "in just"

6 mins; March 25, 2021

Charlotte Mew's "In the Fields"

5 mins; March 24, 2021

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