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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

Luci Shaw's "Tenting, Burr Trail, Long Canyon, Escalante"

8 mins; July 13, 2020

Sarah Teasale's "The Answer"

6 mins; July 10, 2020

Li-Young Lee "From Blossoms"

8 mins; July 09, 2020

Stanley Kunitz' "The Long Boat"

7 mins; July 08, 2020

Wendell Berry's "How to Be a Poet"

7 mins; July 07, 2020

Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"

6 mins; July 06, 2020

Longfellow's "The Midnight Ride of Revere"

7 mins; July 03, 2020

4 Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

5 mins; July 02, 2020

Walt Whitman's "A July Afternoon by the Pond"

8 mins; July 01, 2020

Czesław Miłosz's "Ars Poetica"

10 mins; June 30, 2020

Lucille Clifton's "Blessing the Boats"

6 mins; June 29, 2020

Galway Kinnell's "St. Francis and the Sow"

7 mins; June 26, 2020

Ryan Wilson's "Xenia"

8 mins; June 25, 2020

Jill Kress Karn's "Holy" and "Unfinished Madonna"

8 mins; June 24, 2020

Amy Clampitt's "Lindenbloom"

7 mins; June 23, 2020

Ted Kooser's "A Summer Afternoon with Clouds"

6 mins; June 22, 2020

John Clare's "Summer Moods"

6 mins; June 19, 2020

Maya Angelou's "I Still Rise"

7 mins; June 18, 2020

"Many Thousand Gone"

7 mins; June 17, 2020

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"

6 mins; June 16, 2020

Countee Cullen's "To the Swimmer"

9 mins; June 12, 2020

Jean Toomer's "Harvest Song"

8 mins; June 10, 2020

Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Children of the Poor"

8 mins; June 09, 2020

Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass"

6 mins; June 08, 2020

Nikki Giovanni's "Rosa Parks"

6 mins; June 05, 2020

Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again"

6 mins; June 04, 2020

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"

6 mins; June 03, 2020

E. Nesbit's "The Despot"

6 mins; May 28, 2020

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

7 mins; May 27, 2020

Andrew Marvell's "The Garden"

7 mins; May 26, 2020

Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night"

8 mins; May 20, 2020

Mark Van Doren's "In bitterness of heart I write"

9 mins; May 19, 2020

Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider"

7 mins; May 14, 2020

Bayard Taylor "A Night with a Wolf"

6 mins; May 13, 2020

Katherine Larson's "Metamorphoses"

6 mins; May 12, 2020

Robert Pinsky's "Poem with lines in any order"

5 mins; May 11, 2020

John Clare's "The Nightengale's Nest"

8 mins; May 08, 2020

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring"

7 mins; May 07, 2020

Ted Kooser's "Abandoned Farmhouse"

7 mins; May 06, 2020

Thomas Merton's "Elegy for the Monastery Barn"

11 mins; May 05, 2020

Seamus Heaney's "The Railway Children"

6 mins; April 30, 2020

Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers"

5 mins; April 29, 2020

William Blake's "The Tyger"

8 mins; April 28, 2020

R.S Thomas' "90th Birthday"

9 mins; April 24, 2020

William Carlos Williams' "Spring Storm"

6 mins; April 23, 2020

Richard Wilbur's "The Reader"

6 mins; April 22, 2020

Poetry in a Time of Crisis

8 mins; April 21, 2020

James Matthew Wilson's "Through the Water"

9 mins; April 20, 2020

Scott Cairns' "Daily Sacrifice"

5 mins; April 17, 2020

W.H. Davies' "Leisure"

7 mins; April 16, 2020

Mary Oliver's "This Morning"

4 mins; April 15, 2020

W.S. Merwin's "Finding a Teacher"

14 mins; April 14, 2020

Wendell Berry's "An Anniversary"

7 mins; April 13, 2020

A.E. Stallings' "Dyeing the Easter Eggs"

7 mins; April 10, 2020

Dana Gioia's "Words"

8 mins; March 11, 2020

W.H. Auden's "The Fall of Rome"

8 mins; March 10, 2020

John Clare's "First Sight of Spring"

6 mins; March 09, 2020

Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

9 mins; March 06, 2020

Howard Nemerov's "Learning the Trees"

9 mins; March 05, 2020

Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"

6 mins; March 03, 2020

Richard Lovelace's "To Althea, from Prison"

5 mins; March 02, 2020

Ryan Wilson's "For a Dog"

8 mins; February 28, 2020

Wendell Berry's "A Purification"

5 mins; February 27, 2020

Ted Kooser's "Deep Winter"

7 mins; February 26, 2020

Lisel Mueller's "Monet Refuses the Operation"

8 mins; February 25, 2020

Mary Oliver's "Gethsemane"

5 mins; February 24, 2020

William Carlos Williams' "The Term"

5 mins; February 19, 2020

Edward Thomas' "February Afternoon"

6 mins; February 18, 2020

Lines from Romeo and Juliet 1.5

8 mins; February 17, 2020

Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"

8 mins; February 14, 2020

Sally Thomas' "Obscure Constellation in Winter"

10 mins; February 13, 2020

Maurice Mannings" "An Old Track in the Woods"

9 mins; February 12, 2020

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Map"

9 mins; February 11, 2020

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Moose"

11 mins; February 10, 2020

Stanley Kunitz' "The Round"

6 mins; February 07, 2020

A.E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees"

5 mins; February 06, 2020

Lord Byron's "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa"

8 mins; February 05, 2020

Louise Bogan's "Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom"

7 mins; February 04, 2020

John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Changeling"

8 mins; February 03, 2020

Robert Frost's "Design"

7 mins; January 31, 2020

Robert Frost's "The Oven Bird"

7 mins; January 30, 2020

W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"

6 mins; January 29, 2020

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

6 mins; January 28, 2020

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

6 mins; January 27, 2020

Christina Rosetti's "Birthday"

7 mins; January 24, 2020

Trumbull Stickney "Mnemosyne"

10 mins; January 23, 2020

Louise Bogan's "Women"

7 mins; January 22, 2020

Robert Bridges' "London Snow"

8 mins; January 21, 2020

Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

8 mins; January 17, 2020

W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"

10 mins; January 16, 2020

Richard Wilbur's "Orchard Trees, January"

7 mins; January 15, 2020

Emily Dickinson's "the sky is low"

5 mins; January 14, 2020

Karl Shapiro's "California Winter"

10 mins; January 13, 2020

Shel Silverstein's "Sick"

6 mins; January 07, 2020

George Mackay Brown's "Epiphany Poem"

7 mins; January 06, 2020

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

9 mins; January 01, 2020

Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "When the Year Grows Old"

8 mins; December 31, 2019

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

8 mins; December 26, 2019

Clement Moore's "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"

3 mins; December 24, 2019

Robert Bridges' "Noel: Christmas Eve 1913"

6 mins; December 23, 2019

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