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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

William Morris' "Spring's Bedfellow"

8 mins; March 23, 2021

R.S. Thomas' "The Spring Equinox"

7 mins; March 22, 2021

William Wordsworth's "Written in March"

6 mins; March 18, 2021

2 by Rhina Espaillat

7 mins; March 17, 2021

Brutus' speech from Julius Caesar

8 mins; March 16, 2021

William Vaughn Moody's "A Gray Day"

6 mins; March 15, 2021

John Donne's "The Good 'Morrow"

7 mins; March 11, 2021

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Musical Instrument"

7 mins; March 10, 2021

Wendell Berry's Sabbath Poem III (1994)

9 mins; March 09, 2021

Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman"

6 mins; March 08, 2021

Anne Spencer's "For Jim, Easter Eve"

5 mins; March 05, 2021

H.D.'s "Sheltered Garden"

8 mins; March 04, 2021

Howard Nemerov's "Watching Football on TV"

6 mins; March 02, 2021

Happy 100th Birthday to Richard Wilbur

8 mins; March 01, 2021

Henry Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"

7 mins; February 26, 2021

James Russell Lowell's "The Sirens"

7 mins; February 25, 2021

Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"

10 mins; February 24, 2021

Philip Larkin's "First Sight"

6 mins; February 23, 2021

W.H. Auden's "Ode to the Medieval Poets"

7 mins; February 22, 2021

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

5 mins; February 18, 2021

James Matthew Wilson's "A Common Tongue"

6 mins; February 17, 2021

Kate Baer's "Motherload"

7 mins; February 16, 2021

Maurice Manning's "Railsplitter"

9 mins; February 15, 2021

Joshua Alan Sturgill's "Feast of Books"

8 mins; February 12, 2021

E.E. Cummings' "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Gladly Beyond"

7 mins; February 11, 2021

Edward Thomas' "Celandine"

6 mins; February 10, 2021

Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

7 mins; February 09, 2021

Elizabeth Bishop's "Roosters"

8 mins; February 08, 2021

Luci Shaw's "Advent Visitation"

5 mins; December 22, 2020

Luci Shaw's "Some Christmas Stars"

6 mins; December 21, 2020

Wendell Berry's "Remembering That It Happened Once"

5 mins; December 18, 2020

W.H. Davies' "Winter's Beauty"

5 mins; December 17, 2020

Rowan William's "Advent Calendar"

7 mins; December 16, 2020

Robert Frost's "An Old Man's Winter Night"

7 mins; December 15, 2020

Happy Birthday, Jim Harrison!

7 mins; December 14, 2020

Emily Dickinson's Birthday

7 mins; December 10, 2020

John Milton's "On His Deceased Wife"

6 mins; December 09, 2020

Horace's Ode I.11

6 mins; December 08, 2020

Jane Kenyon's "Mosaic of the Nativity, Serbia, Winter 1993"

5 mins; December 07, 2020

Madeleine L'Engle's "The Winter Is Cold, Is Cold"

6 mins; December 04, 2020

Richard Wilbur's "A Black Birch in Winter"

6 mins; December 03, 2020

Ted Kooser's "December 2"

5 mins; December 02, 2020

Robert Frost's "Christmas Trees"

11 mins; December 01, 2020

Ted Kooser's "A Glint"

6 mins; November 04, 2020

William Wordsworth's "London, 1802"

7 mins; October 28, 2020

Carl Sandberg's "The Long Shadow of Lincoln - A Litany"

6 mins; October 27, 2020

Song of Songs: Chapter 8

11 mins; October 26, 2020

Wendell Berry's "1997"

8 mins; October 13, 2020

2 Poems for Autumn from Sally Thomas

10 mins; October 09, 2020

Louise Glück: Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

6 mins; October 08, 2020

Rhina Espaillat's "Gardening"

8 mins; October 07, 2020

Elizabeth Bishop's "A Miracle for Breakfast"

10 mins; October 06, 2020

Wallace Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar"

8 mins; October 05, 2020

Alice Cary's "Autumn"

6 mins; October 02, 2020

Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"

7 mins; October 01, 2020

Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

6 mins; September 30, 2020

Gwendolyn Brooks' "A Sunset of the City"

9 mins; September 28, 2020

Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”

6 mins; September 23, 2020

Donald Hall's "The Long Ranger"

6 mins; September 21, 2020

T.S. Eliot's "La Figlia che Piange"

9 mins; September 18, 2020

Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"

7 mins; September 16, 2020

Claude McKay's "Subway Winds"

6 mins; September 15, 2020

Christina Rossetti's "An Apple Gathering"

8 mins; September 14, 2020

Billy Collins' "The Names"

6 mins; September 11, 2020

Mary Oliver's "Every Morning"

5 mins; September 10, 2020

Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"

10 mins; September 09, 2020

Luci Shaw's "Time Travel"

8 mins; September 04, 2020

H.D.'s "Helen"

7 mins; September 03, 2020

Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"

8 mins; September 02, 2020

Hayden Carruth's "Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend"

9 mins; August 31, 2020

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

10 mins; August 28, 2020

Marilyn Chin's "Turtle Soup"

9 mins; August 27, 2020

Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"

9 mins; August 26, 2020

Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"

9 mins; August 26, 2020

Robert Herrick's "The Argument of his Book"

7 mins; August 24, 2020

Donald Justice's "The Evening of the Mind"

7 mins; August 20, 2020

Percy Shelley's "Mont Blanc"

10 mins; August 19, 2020

Billy Collins' "Aristotle"

12 mins; August 18, 2020

Ted Hughes' "The Thought Fox"

7 mins; August 17, 2020

Lewis Carroll's "A Pig-Tale"

5 mins; August 14, 2020

Edward Thomas' "Liberty"

7 mins; August 12, 2020

R. S. Thomas' "I Was Vicar of Large Things"

7 mins; August 11, 2020

Elizabeth Bishop's "A Summer's Dream"

5 mins; August 10, 2020

Shakespeare's "this royal throne of kings" soliloquy

6 mins; August 07, 2020

Wendell Berry's "To My Mother"

5 mins; August 05, 2020

Rachel Richardson's "Shearwater"

8 mins; August 04, 2020

Charlotte Turner Smith's "Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clift'd Shore"

7 mins; August 03, 2020

Franz Wright's "Auto-Lullaby"

7 mins; July 31, 2020

Lynda Hull's "Insect Life of Florida"

8 mins; July 30, 2020

Stanley Kunitz' "The Layers"

7 mins; July 29, 2020

Billy Collins' "The Lanyard"

7 mins; July 28, 2020

Wendell Berry's "early in the year by my friend's gift"

8 mins; July 27, 2020

Emily Dickinson's "Of Bronze and Blaze"

6 mins; July 24, 2020

Robert Frost's "The Tuft of Flowers"

9 mins; July 23, 2020

William Cullen Bryant's "Summer Winds"

9 mins; July 22, 2020

Camille Dungy's "Trophic Cascade"

8 mins; July 21, 2020

Malcolm Guite's "The Singing Bowl"

6 mins; July 20, 2020

Kimberly Johnson's "Big Finish"

8 mins; July 17, 2020

Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"

7 mins; July 15, 2020

Natasha Tretheway's "Family Portrait"

5 mins; July 14, 2020

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