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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.

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Episode Date
Ted Kooser's "After Years"
Apr 25, 2024
T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Apr 24, 2024
William Shakespeare's "It Was a Lover and His Lass"
Apr 23, 2024
Louise Glück's "The Wild Iris"
Apr 22, 2024
Francis Thompson's "The Hound of Heaven"
Apr 19, 2024
William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"
Apr 18, 2024
John Donne's "No Man Is an Island"
Apr 17, 2024
Walt Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"
Apr 16, 2024
Wendell Berry's "The Plan"
Apr 15, 2024
Seamus Heaney's "A Basket of Chestnuts"
Apr 12, 2024
Billy Collins' "Candle Hat"
Apr 11, 2024
Elizabeth Jennings' "Rembrandt's Late Self-Portraits"
Apr 10, 2024
Richard Howard's "Gustave Dore"
Apr 09, 2024
Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe"
Apr 08, 2024
Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
Apr 05, 2024
Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"
Apr 04, 2024
George Herbert's "The Church-floore"
Apr 03, 2024
Ogden Nash's "Very Like a Whale"
Apr 02, 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection"
Apr 01, 2024
Andrew Marvell's "A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure"
Mar 30, 2024
Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
Mar 30, 2024
Louis Simpson's "American Poetry"
Mar 27, 2024
A. E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees (Shropshire Lad II)"
Mar 26, 2024
Two by John Robert Lee
Mar 25, 2024
Billy Collins' "Marginalia"
Mar 22, 2024
Ezra Pound's "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
Mar 21, 2024
Robert Frost's "Out, Out–"
Mar 20, 2024
Poem-Prayers by Robert Herrick
Mar 19, 2024
Two by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Mar 18, 2024
David Lehman's "The Ides of March"
Mar 15, 2024
Li Po's "The Solitude of Night"
Mar 14, 2024
James Merrill's "The Octopus"
Mar 13, 2024
Hilaire Belloc's "Lines to a Don"
Mar 12, 2024
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Poet's Calendar"
Mar 11, 2024
Naomi Shihab Nye's "The Traveling Onion"
Mar 08, 2024
Colley Cibber's "The Blind Boy"
Mar 07, 2024
Bertolt Brecht's "A Worker Reads History"
Mar 06, 2024
J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Road Goes Ever On"
Mar 05, 2024
Dr. Seuss' "Did I Ever Tell You..?"
Mar 04, 2024
Richard Wilbur's "The Death of a Toad"
Mar 01, 2024
Howard Nemerov's "De Anima"
Feb 29, 2024
Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "Nameless Pain"
Feb 28, 2024
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Poet and His Songs"
Feb 27, 2024
Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"
Feb 26, 2024
William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Feb 23, 2024
Three by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Feb 22, 2024
W. H. Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"
Feb 21, 2024
Maurice Manning's "A Brief Refutation..."
Feb 20, 2024
James Matthew Wilson's "The Scar of Odysseus"
Feb 19, 2024
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Love Song"
Feb 16, 2024
Ben Jonson's "Song to Celia"
Feb 15, 2024
Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"
Feb 14, 2024
John Donne's "The Flea"
Feb 13, 2024
William Shakespeare's Sonnets 98 & 99
Feb 12, 2024
William Cullen Bryant's "To a Waterfowl"
Feb 09, 2024
Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"
Feb 08, 2024
Tracy K. Smith's "Solstice"
Feb 07, 2024
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"
Feb 06, 2024
Langston Hughes' "Harlem"
Feb 05, 2024
Robert Herrick's "Ceremony Upon Candlemas Eve"
Feb 02, 2024
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Work Without Hope"
Feb 01, 2024
Robert Browning's "Development"
Jan 31, 2024
Emily Dickinson's "Fame is a bee."
Jan 30, 2024
Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
Jan 29, 2024
John Greenleaf Whittier's "Ichabod"
Jan 26, 2024
Dana Gioia's "Entrance"
Jan 25, 2024
Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors"
Jan 24, 2024
John Keats' "When I have fears that I may cease to be"
Jan 23, 2024
Christina Rossetti's "Who Has Seen the Wind?"
Jan 22, 2024
Shakespeare's "Let's talk of graves" from Richard II
Jan 19, 2024
Shakespeare's "Should we be silent" from Coriolanus
Jan 18, 2024
Shakespeare's "If I be not ashamed of my soldiers"
Jan 17, 2024
Shakespeare's "Be Absolute For Death"
Jan 16, 2024
Shakespeare's "Prologue" to Henry V
Jan 15, 2024
Carl Sandburg's "Little Word, Little White Bird"
Jan 12, 2024
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm"
Jan 11, 2024
Gelett Burgess' "The Purple Cow"
Jan 10, 2024
Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Jan 10, 2024
Jane Kenyon's "Taking Down the Tree"
Jan 08, 2024
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "The world is a beautiful place"
Jan 05, 2024
William Carlos Williams' "January"
Jan 04, 2024
Philip Appleman's "To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year"
Jan 04, 2024
W. S. Merwin's "To the New Year"
Jan 02, 2024
Robert Burns' "Auld Lang Syne"
Jan 01, 2024
Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"
Dec 29, 2023
Wendell Berry's "Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer"
Dec 28, 2023
Dorianne Laux's "Family Stories"
Dec 27, 2023
John Mason Neale's "Good King Wenceslas"
Dec 26, 2023
Two Poems for Christmas
Dec 25, 2023
T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"
Dec 23, 2023
Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Dec 21, 2023
Ruth Moose's "My Father's Fruitcake"
Dec 20, 2023
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo"
Dec 19, 2023
G. K. Chesterton's "A Child of the Snows"
Dec 18, 2023
Mark Doty's "Messiah (Christmas Portions)"
Dec 15, 2023
W. H. Auden's "O Tell Me the Truth About Love"
Dec 14, 2023
Three Poems for St. Lucy's Day
Dec 13, 2023
Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
Dec 12, 2023
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Constantly Risking Absurdity"
Dec 11, 2023
Mary Jo Salter's "Advent"
Dec 08, 2023
Czeslaw Milosz' "Blacksmith Shop"
Dec 07, 2023
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith"
Dec 06, 2023
Robert Burns' "To a Mouse"
Dec 05, 2023
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"
Dec 04, 2023
James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost is on the Punkin"
Dec 01, 2023
Mary Oliver's "The Mangroves"
Nov 30, 2023
A. E. Stallings' "Denouement"
Nov 30, 2023
William Blake's "Jerusalem"
Nov 28, 2023
Richard Howard's "Oystering"
Nov 27, 2023
William Matthews' "On a Diet"
Nov 24, 2023
Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper"
Nov 23, 2023
Two Poems About Butter
Nov 22, 2023
W. S. Gilbert's "National Anthem"
Nov 21, 2023
Allen Tate's "Edges"
Nov 20, 2023
Ted Kooser's "Selecting a Reader"
Nov 17, 2023
Walt Whitman to His Reader
Nov 16, 2023
Marianne Moore's "Poetry"
Nov 15, 2023
Billy Collins' "Dear Reader"
Nov 15, 2023
Robert Louis Stevenson's "To Any Reader"
Nov 13, 2023
John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
Nov 10, 2023
Barbara Ras' "Margin of Error"
Nov 09, 2023
Malcolm Guite's "Michaelmas"
Nov 08, 2023
Ogden Nash's Verses for The Carnival of the Animals
Nov 07, 2023
Two for Guy Fawkes Day
Nov 07, 2023
Robert B. Shaw's "Chronometrics"
Nov 03, 2023
Wallace Stevens' "Of the surface of things"
Nov 02, 2023
Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"
Nov 02, 2023
Robert B. Shaw's "Jack O'Lantern"
Nov 01, 2023
E.E. Cummings' "i thank You God for most this amazing day"
Oct 30, 2023
Dylan Thomas' "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
Oct 27, 2023
Christine Perrin's "Reading Telemachus"
Oct 26, 2023
The Saint Crispin's Day Speech
Oct 25, 2023
Carl Sandburg's "Mummy"
Oct 25, 2023
"The Death of Nelson"
Oct 24, 2023
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Oct 20, 2023
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tide Rises, Tide Falls"
Oct 19, 2023
Dana Gioia's "Metamorphosis"
Oct 17, 2023
Two by Oscar Wilde
Oct 16, 2023
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Binsey Poplars"
Oct 11, 2023
Theodore Roethke's "Root Cellar"
Oct 10, 2023
J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Tale of Tinuviel"
Oct 09, 2023
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
Oct 03, 2023
Rudyard Kipling's "If"
Sep 28, 2023
Jane Kenyon's "The Blue Bowl"
Sep 27, 2023
T.S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
Sep 26, 2023
Thomas Gray's "Ode to the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes"
Sep 25, 2023
Pablo Neruda's "A Dog Has Died"
Sep 21, 2023
Blaise Cendrars "Menus"
Sep 18, 2023
Roald Dahl's "The Centipede's Song"
Sep 14, 2023
T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats"
Sep 11, 2023
Mary Oliver's "Beside the Waterfall"
Sep 08, 2023
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 44"
Sep 07, 2023
Wendell Berry's "September 2"
Sep 05, 2023
Seamus Heaney's "Scaffolding"
Sep 04, 2023
Rita Dove's "Ars Poetica"
Sep 01, 2023
Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology"
Aug 28, 2023
Billy Collins' "Introduction to Poetry"
Aug 23, 2023
Edgar Allan Poe's "Sonnet to Science"
Aug 22, 2023
Emily Dickinson's "As Imperceptibly as Grief"
Aug 21, 2023
Philip Larkin's "Mother, Summer, I"
Aug 15, 2023
Thomas Lux's "Cow Chases Boys"
Aug 14, 2023
Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
Aug 11, 2023
John Ashbery's "Crossroads in the Past"
Jul 27, 2023
Matthea Harvey's "In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden"
Jul 26, 2023
Ted Kooser's "In the Basement of the Goodwill Store"
Jul 26, 2023
Lord Dunsany's "A Dirge of Victory"
Jul 25, 2023
Denise Levertov's "Witness"
Jul 20, 2023
Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"
Jul 19, 2023
Mary Oliver's "Storage"
Jul 18, 2023
Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Onion"
Jul 12, 2023
Thomas Merton's "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway"
Jul 07, 2023
Donald Hall's "Oxcart Man"
Jul 06, 2023
Walt Whitman's "Election Day, November, 1884
Jul 06, 2023
Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"
Jul 04, 2023
Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
Jul 03, 2023
Thomas Lux' "Refrigerator, 1957"
Jun 29, 2023
Emily Dickinson's "A Little Dog That Wags Its Tail"
Jun 28, 2023
Frank O'Hara's "Cambridge"
Jun 28, 2023
A. E. Stallings' "Like"
Jun 21, 2023
Muso Soseki "Magnificent Peak"
Jun 20, 2023
Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"
Jun 20, 2023
Kathleen Norris' "Little Girls in Church"
Jun 18, 2023
Theodore Roethke's "Moss-gathering"
Jun 15, 2023
Robert Herrick's "To Daffodils"
Jun 14, 2023
W. B. Yeats' "Adam's Curse"
Jun 14, 2023
W. H. Auden's "Their Lonely Betters"
Jun 09, 2023
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Bed in Summer"
Jun 08, 2023
2 Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Jun 07, 2023
Robert Hass' "The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate"
Jun 06, 2023
Christian Wiman's "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs"
Jun 02, 2023
John Masefield's "Sea Fever"
Jun 01, 2023
Jim Daniels' "American Cheese"
May 30, 2023
3 Poems for Memorial Day
May 29, 2023
Ursula K. LeGuin's "Leaves"
May 26, 2023
John Betjeman's "A Subaltern's Love Song"
May 25, 2023
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"
May 24, 2023
Jane Kenyon's "Dutch Interiors"
May 23, 2023
Seamus Heaney's "May"
May 22, 2023
The Daily Poem Is Back!
May 19, 2023
Joy Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
May 11, 2022
Christina Rossetti's "Sonnets Are Full of Love"
May 10, 2022
William Blake's "A Poison Tree"
May 07, 2022
Caroline Mellor's "We Need to Teach the Children the Old Words"
May 02, 2022
Ted Kooser's "Daddy Longlegs"
Apr 28, 2022
Seamus Heaney's "Three-Piece Suit"
Apr 27, 2022
Louise Gluck's "Averno"
Apr 26, 2022
Claude McKay's "Easter Flower"
Apr 18, 2022
The Dream of the Rood
Apr 15, 2022
Tyree Daye's "Where She Planted Hydrangeas"
Apr 04, 2022
Wendy Cope's "The Orange"
Apr 01, 2022
Amy Gertsler's "In Perpetual Spring"
Mar 25, 2022
Billy Collins' "Today"
Mar 23, 2022
John Koethe's "The Late Wisconsin Spring"
Mar 22, 2022
James Joyce's "Song"
Mar 19, 2022
Howard Nemerov's "Adam and Eve Later in Life"
Mar 16, 2022
Margaret Hasse's "Day after Daylight Savings Time"
Mar 14, 2022
Marianne Moore's "Poetry"
Mar 09, 2022
A. E. Russell's "Forgiveness"
Mar 08, 2022
Paul Pastor's "Letter to My Sons"
Mar 03, 2022
Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
Mar 02, 2022
Lyuba Yakimchuk's "Prayer"
Feb 28, 2022
W.H. Auden's "Doggerel for a Senior Citizen"
Feb 24, 2022
James Matthew Wilson's "Before the Gates"
Feb 23, 2022
W.S. Merwin's "Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise"
Feb 22, 2022
Jericho Brown's "The Card Tables"
Feb 22, 2022
Two Responsive Poems by John and Lonnie Balaban
Feb 14, 2022
Philip Larkin's "The Mower"
Feb 11, 2022
W.H. Auden's "A New Year's Greeting"
Feb 10, 2022
Emily Bronte's "Spellbound"
Feb 07, 2022
Robert Herrick's "Upon Julias' Clothes"
Feb 04, 2022
Rudyard Kipling's "The Law of the Jungle"
Feb 03, 2022
Maurice Manning "The Winter of My Discontent'
Feb 02, 2022
Lucy Shaw's "Mending"
Feb 02, 2022
Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"
Jan 31, 2022
Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning"
Jan 22, 2022
Harmony Holiday's "Microwave Popcorn"
Jan 18, 2022
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Woods in Winter"
Jan 12, 2022
Li-Young Lee's "Eating Together"
Jan 11, 2022
Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"
Dec 31, 2021
Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
Dec 30, 2021
U.A. Fanthorpe's "The Sheepdog"
Dec 28, 2021
Elinor Wylie's "Velvet Shoes"
Dec 28, 2021
William Carlos Williams' "The Gift"
Dec 21, 2021
George Santayana's "Cape Cod"
Dec 16, 2021
From "W.H. Auden's "For the Time Being"
Dec 15, 2021
Mary Oliver's "Preparing the House"
Dec 14, 2021
Nancy Willard's "The Snow Arrives After Long Silence"
Dec 14, 2021
Malcolm Guite's "A Sonnet for Nicholas Ferrar"
Dec 06, 2021
Edward Thomas' "Bird's Nests"
Dec 02, 2021
Jim Harrison's "Solstice Litany"
Dec 01, 2021
William Blake's "The Garden of Love"
Nov 30, 2021
Jamaal May's "There Are Birds Here"
Nov 15, 2021
Denise Levertov's "A Tree Telling of Orpheus"
Nov 11, 2021
Ivan Turgenev's "A Dream"
Nov 10, 2021
Kara Jackson's "The World Is About to End and My Grandparents Are in Love"
Nov 08, 2021
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Autumn Idleness"
Nov 04, 2021
Laurence Binyon's "The Burning of the Leaves"
Nov 03, 2021
Wendell Berry's "Wild Geese"
Nov 02, 2021
Sara Teasdale's "The Writer"
Oct 18, 2021
Naomi Shihab Nye's "Fundamentalism"
Aug 23, 2021
Bryana Joy's "Kabul Airport"
Aug 18, 2021
Sir Walter Scott's "Lochinvar"
Aug 16, 2021
William Carlos Williams' "A Coronal"
Aug 09, 2021
Margaret Cavendish's "A Lady Dressed by Youth"
Aug 05, 2021
Katherine Anne Porter's "Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake"
Aug 04, 2021
Elinor Wylie's "Atavism"
Aug 03, 2021
John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
Jul 26, 2021
Seamus Heaney's "The Rain Stick"
Jul 23, 2021
Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"
Jul 22, 2021
Alun Lewis' "Today It Has Rained"
Jul 21, 2021
Theodore Roethke's "The Pike"
Jul 20, 2021
Billy Collins' "Fishing on the Susquehanna in July"
Jul 19, 2021
Marge Piercy's "Colors Passing Through Us"
Jul 12, 2021
Emily Dickinson's "Like Rain it Soundeth"
Jul 07, 2021
John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
Jul 06, 2021
John Haines' "Fourth of July at Santa Ynez"
Jul 05, 2021
Mary Oliver's "The Riders"
Jul 02, 2021
Dana Gioia's "California Hills in August"
Jul 01, 2021
T.S. Eliot's "Cape Ann"
Jun 30, 2021
Elisabeth Jennings' "English Wildflowers"
Jun 29, 2021
Amy Lowell's "Bath"
Jun 28, 2021
Robinson Jeffers' "Carmel Point"
Jun 22, 2021
Adrian Rice's "The Double Crown"
Jun 19, 2021
Jane Kenyon's "Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer"
Jun 04, 2021
Thomas Hardy's "Overlooking the River Stour"
Jun 03, 2021
John McCrae's "The Unconquered Dead"
Jun 02, 2021
Walt Whitman's "On the Beach at Night Alone"
Jun 01, 2021
Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"
May 24, 2021
Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"
May 21, 2021
Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins"
May 20, 2021
Joy Harjo's "Once the World Was Perfect"
May 19, 2021
W.B. Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
May 19, 2021
Natasha Tretheway's "What the Body Can Say"
May 17, 2021
Ted Kooser's "Mother"
May 11, 2021
Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"
May 10, 2021
Sharon Olds "The Race"
May 06, 2021
John Keats' "After dark vapors"
May 05, 2021
Lines from Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost"
May 04, 2021
Chase Twichell's "Cloud of Unknowing"
May 03, 2021
Edna St Vincent Millay's "Sonnet 3"
Apr 27, 2021
William Carlos Williams' "the farmer in deep thought"
Apr 27, 2021
Terrence Hayes' "We Should Make a Documentary about Spades"
Apr 22, 2021
Tracy K. Smith's "The Good Life"
Apr 21, 2021
Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad"
Apr 20, 2021
Robert Hass' "Meditation at Lagunitas"
Apr 19, 2021
Grace Schulman's "Because"
Apr 16, 2021
Charlotte Mew's "I So Liked Spring"
Apr 15, 2021
Laurie Lee's "April Rise"
Apr 14, 2021
Rhina Espaillat's "Things That Go"
Apr 13, 2021
A.E. Housman's "Smooth Between Sea and Land"
Apr 12, 2021
Rosalie Grayer's "Altar Smoke"
Apr 05, 2021
From "The Dream of the Rood"
Apr 02, 2021
The World's Greatest Poem
Apr 01, 2021
A.E. Housman's "A Lent Lilly"
Mar 31, 2021
G.K. Chesterton's "The Donkey"
Mar 30, 2021
Amy Lowell's "Opal"
Mar 29, 2021
Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Ledore"
Mar 26, 2021
e.e. cummings' "in just"
Mar 25, 2021
Charlotte Mew's "In the Fields"
Mar 24, 2021
William Morris' "Spring's Bedfellow"
Mar 23, 2021
R.S. Thomas' "The Spring Equinox"
Mar 23, 2021
William Wordsworth's "Written in March"
Mar 18, 2021
2 by Rhina Espaillat
Mar 17, 2021
Brutus' speech from Julius Caesar
Mar 16, 2021
William Vaughn Moody's "A Gray Day"
Mar 15, 2021
John Donne's "The Good 'Morrow"
Mar 11, 2021
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Musical Instrument"
Mar 10, 2021
Wendell Berry's Sabbath Poem III (1994)
Mar 09, 2021
Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman"
Mar 08, 2021
Anne Spencer's "For Jim, Easter Eve"
Mar 05, 2021
H.D.'s "Sheltered Garden"
Mar 04, 2021
Howard Nemerov's "Watching Football on TV"
Mar 02, 2021
Happy 100th Birthday to Richard Wilbur
Mar 01, 2021
Henry Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"
Feb 26, 2021
James Russell Lowell's "The Sirens"
Feb 25, 2021
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
Feb 24, 2021
Philip Larkin's "First Sight"
Feb 23, 2021
W.H. Auden's "Ode to the Medieval Poets"
Feb 22, 2021
Nancy Willard's "The Snow Arrives after Long Silence"
Feb 18, 2021
James Matthew Wilson's "A Common Tongue"
Feb 17, 2021
Kate Baer's "Motherload"
Feb 16, 2021
Maurice Manning's "Railsplitter"
Feb 15, 2021
Joshua Alan Sturgill's "Feast of Books"
Feb 12, 2021
E.E. Cummings' "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Gladly Beyond"
Feb 11, 2021
Edward Thomas' "Celandine"
Feb 10, 2021
Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Feb 09, 2021
Elizabeth Bishop's "Roosters"
Feb 08, 2021
Luci Shaw's "Advent Visitation"
Dec 22, 2020
Luci Shaw's "Some Christmas Stars"
Dec 21, 2020
Wendell Berry's "Remembering That It Happened Once"
Dec 19, 2020
W.H. Davies' "Winter's Beauty"
Dec 17, 2020
Rowan William's "Advent Calendar"
Dec 16, 2020
Robert Frost's "An Old Man's Winter Night"
Dec 15, 2020
Happy Birthday, Jim Harrison!
Dec 15, 2020
Emily Dickinson's Birthday
Dec 10, 2020
John Milton's "On His Deceased Wife"
Dec 09, 2020
Horace's Ode I.11
Dec 08, 2020
Jane Kenyon's "Mosaic of the Nativity, Serbia, Winter 1993"
Dec 07, 2020
Madeleine L'Engle's "The Winter Is Cold, Is Cold"
Dec 04, 2020
Richard Wilbur's "A Black Birch in Winter"
Dec 03, 2020
Ted Kooser's "December 2"
Dec 02, 2020
Robert Frost's "Christmas Trees"
Dec 01, 2020
Ted Kooser's "A Glint"
Nov 04, 2020
William Wordsworth's "London, 1802"
Oct 29, 2020
Carl Sandberg's "The Long Shadow of Lincoln - A Litany"
Oct 27, 2020
Song of Songs: Chapter 8
Oct 26, 2020
Wendell Berry's "1997"
Oct 13, 2020
2 Poems for Autumn from Sally Thomas
Oct 09, 2020
Louise Glück: Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
Oct 08, 2020
Rhina Espaillat's "Gardening"
Oct 07, 2020
Elizabeth Bishop's "A Miracle for Breakfast"
Oct 06, 2020
Wallace Stevens' "Anecdote of a Jar"
Oct 05, 2020
Alice Cary's "Autumn"
Oct 02, 2020
Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
Oct 01, 2020
Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Sep 30, 2020
Gwendolyn Brooks' "A Sunset of the City"
Sep 28, 2020
Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”
Sep 23, 2020
Donald Hall's "The Long Ranger"
Sep 21, 2020
T.S. Eliot's "La Figlia che Piange"
Sep 18, 2020
Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"
Sep 16, 2020
Claude McKay's "Subway Winds"
Sep 15, 2020
Christina Rossetti's "An Apple Gathering"
Sep 14, 2020
Billy Collins' "The Names"
Sep 11, 2020
Mary Oliver's "Every Morning"
Sep 10, 2020
Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"
Sep 09, 2020
Luci Shaw's "Time Travel"
Sep 04, 2020
H.D.'s "Helen"
Sep 03, 2020
Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"
Sep 02, 2020
Hayden Carruth's "Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend"
Aug 31, 2020
Mary Jo Salter's "Home Movies: A Sort of Ode"
Aug 28, 2020
Marilyn Chin's "Turtle Soup"
Aug 27, 2020
Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"
Aug 26, 2020
Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist"
Aug 26, 2020
Robert Herrick's "The Argument of his Book"
Aug 24, 2020
Donald Justice's "The Evening of the Mind"
Aug 20, 2020
Percy Shelley's "Mont Blanc"
Aug 19, 2020
Billy Collins' "Aristotle"
Aug 18, 2020
Ted Hughes' "The Thought Fox"
Aug 17, 2020
Lewis Carroll's "A Pig-Tale"
Aug 14, 2020
Edward Thomas' "Liberty"
Aug 12, 2020
R. S. Thomas' "I Was Vicar of Large Things"
Aug 11, 2020
Elizabeth Bishop's "A Summer's Dream"
Aug 10, 2020
Shakespeare's "this royal throne of kings" soliloquy
Aug 07, 2020
Wendell Berry's "To My Mother"
Aug 05, 2020
Rachel Richardson's "Shearwater"
Aug 04, 2020
Charlotte Turner Smith's "Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clift'd Shore"
Aug 03, 2020
Franz Wright's "Auto-Lullaby"
Jul 31, 2020
Lynda Hull's "Insect Life of Florida"
Jul 30, 2020
Stanley Kunitz' "The Layers"
Jul 29, 2020
Billy Collins' "The Lanyard"
Jul 28, 2020
Wendell Berry's "early in the year by my friend's gift"
Jul 27, 2020
Emily Dickinson's "Of Bronze and Blaze"
Jul 24, 2020
Robert Frost's "The Tuft of Flowers"
Jul 23, 2020
William Cullen Bryant's "Summer Winds"
Jul 22, 2020
Camille Dungy's "Trophic Cascade"
Jul 21, 2020
Malcolm Guite's "The Singing Bowl"
Jul 20, 2020
Kimberly Johnson's "Big Finish"
Jul 17, 2020
Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
Jul 15, 2020
Natasha Tretheway's "Family Portrait"
Jul 14, 2020
Luci Shaw's "Tenting, Burr Trail, Long Canyon, Escalante"
Jul 13, 2020
Sarah Teasale's "The Answer"
Jul 10, 2020
Li-Young Lee "From Blossoms"
Jul 09, 2020
Stanley Kunitz' "The Long Boat"
Jul 08, 2020
Wendell Berry's "How to Be a Poet"
Jul 07, 2020
Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus"
Jul 06, 2020
Longfellow's "The Midnight Ride of Revere"
Jul 03, 2020
4 Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
Jul 02, 2020
Walt Whitman's "A July Afternoon by the Pond"
Jul 01, 2020
Czesław Miłosz's "Ars Poetica"
Jun 30, 2020
Lucille Clifton's "Blessing the Boats"
Jun 29, 2020
Galway Kinnell's "St. Francis and the Sow"
Jun 27, 2020
Ryan Wilson's "Xenia"
Jun 25, 2020
Jill Kress Karn's "Holy" and "Unfinished Madonna"
Jun 24, 2020
Amy Clampitt's "Lindenbloom"
Jun 23, 2020
Ted Kooser's "A Summer Afternoon with Clouds"
Jun 22, 2020
John Clare's "Summer Moods"
Jun 19, 2020
Maya Angelou's "I Still Rise"
Jun 18, 2020
"Many Thousand Gone"
Jun 17, 2020
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"
Jun 16, 2020
Countee Cullen's "To the Swimmer"
Jun 12, 2020
Jean Toomer's "Harvest Song"
Jun 10, 2020
Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Children of the Poor"
Jun 09, 2020
Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass"
Jun 08, 2020
Nikki Giovanni's "Rosa Parks"
Jun 05, 2020
Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again"
Jun 04, 2020
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"
Jun 03, 2020
E. Nesbit's "The Despot"
May 28, 2020
W.H. Auden's "Their Lonely Betters"
May 27, 2020
Andrew Marvell's "The Garden"
May 26, 2020
Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night"
May 20, 2020
Mark Van Doren's "In bitterness of heart I write"
May 19, 2020
Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
May 14, 2020
Bayard Taylor "A Night with a Wolf"
May 13, 2020
Katherine Larson's "Metamorphoses"
May 12, 2020
Robert Pinsky's "Poem with lines in any order"
May 11, 2020
John Clare's "The Nightengale's Nest"
May 09, 2020
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring"
May 07, 2020
Ted Kooser's "Abandoned Farmhouse"
May 06, 2020
Thomas Merton's "Elegy for the Monastery Barn"
May 05, 2020
Seamus Heaney's "The Railway Children"
May 01, 2020
Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers"
Apr 29, 2020
William Blake's "The Tyger"
Apr 28, 2020
R.S Thomas' "90th Birthday"
Apr 24, 2020
William Carlos Williams' "Spring Storm"
Apr 23, 2020
Richard Wilbur's "The Reader"
Apr 22, 2020
Poetry in a Time of Crisis
Apr 21, 2020
James Matthew Wilson's "Through the Water"
Apr 20, 2020
Scott Cairns' "Daily Sacrifice"
Apr 17, 2020
W.H. Davies' "Leisure"
Apr 16, 2020
Mary Oliver's "This Morning"
Apr 15, 2020
W.S. Merwin's "Finding a Teacher"
Apr 14, 2020
Wendell Berry's "An Anniversary"
Apr 13, 2020
A.E. Stallings' "Dyeing the Easter Eggs"
Apr 10, 2020
Dana Gioia's "Words"
Mar 11, 2020
W.H. Auden's "The Fall of Rome"
Mar 10, 2020
John Clare's "First Sight of Spring"
Mar 09, 2020
Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Mar 06, 2020
Howard Nemerov's "Learning the Trees"
Mar 05, 2020
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"
Mar 03, 2020
Richard Lovelace's "To Althea, from Prison"
Mar 02, 2020
Ryan Wilson's "For a Dog"
Feb 28, 2020
Wendell Berry's "A Purification"
Feb 27, 2020
Ted Kooser's "Deep Winter"
Feb 26, 2020
Lisel Mueller's "Monet Refuses the Operation"
Feb 25, 2020
Mary Oliver's "Gethsemane"
Feb 24, 2020
William Carlos Williams' "The Term"
Feb 20, 2020
Edward Thomas' "February Afternoon"
Feb 18, 2020
Lines from Romeo and Juliet 1.5
Feb 17, 2020
Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"
Feb 14, 2020
Sally Thomas' "Obscure Constellation in Winter"
Feb 13, 2020
Maurice Mannings" "An Old Track in the Woods"
Feb 12, 2020
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Map"
Feb 11, 2020
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Moose"
Feb 10, 2020
Stanley Kunitz' "The Round"
Feb 07, 2020
A.E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees"
Feb 06, 2020
Lord Byron's "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa"
Feb 05, 2020
Louise Bogan's "Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom"
Feb 04, 2020
John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Changeling"
Feb 03, 2020
Robert Frost's "Design"
Jan 31, 2020
Robert Frost's "The Oven Bird"
Jan 30, 2020
W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"
Jan 29, 2020
W.B. Yeat's "Adam's Curse"
Jan 28, 2020
W.B. Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
Jan 27, 2020
Christina Rosetti's "Birthday"
Jan 24, 2020
Trumbull Stickney "Mnemosyne"
Jan 23, 2020
Louise Bogan's "Women"
Jan 22, 2020
Robert Bridges' "London Snow"
Jan 21, 2020
Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
Jan 17, 2020
W.H. Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"
Jan 16, 2020
Richard Wilbur's "Orchard Trees, January"
Jan 15, 2020
Emily Dickinson's "the sky is low"
Jan 14, 2020
Karl Shapiro's "California Winter"
Jan 13, 2020
Shel Silverstein's "Sick"
Jan 07, 2020
George Mackay Brown's "Epiphany Poem"
Jan 06, 2020
Helen Hunt Jackson's "New Year's Morning"
Jan 01, 2020
Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "When the Year Grows Old"
Dec 31, 2019
T.S. Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi"
Dec 26, 2019
Clement Moore's "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
Dec 24, 2019
Robert Bridges' "Noel: Christmas Eve 1913"
Dec 23, 2019
Emily Bronte's "The night is darkening round me"
Dec 20, 2019
W.S. Merwin's "A Leaf Falling in Winter"
Dec 19, 2019
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Christmas at Sea"
Dec 18, 2019
2 Poems: Chesterton and Yeats for Advent Christmas
Dec 17, 2019
Wallace Stevens' "The Snow Man"
Dec 16, 2019
Emily Dickinson's "I should not dare to leave my friend"
Dec 13, 2019
Elinor Wylie's "Silver Filigree"
Dec 12, 2019
Longfellow's "Christmas Bells"
Dec 11, 2019
Donald Hall's "The Snow"
Dec 10, 2019
Gail Mazur's "Ice"
Dec 09, 2019
Gjertrud Schnackenberg's "Advent Calendar"
Dec 06, 2019
Two Poems for Jeremiah on His 7th Birthday
Dec 05, 2019
Gjertrud Schnackenberg's "The Paperweight"
Dec 04, 2019
John Clare's "Winter Walk"
Dec 03, 2019
Charlotte Mew's "A Quoi Bon Dire"
Nov 22, 2019
Ogden Nash's "The Tale of Custard the Dragon"
Nov 21, 2019
Richard Wilbur's "Crows Nests"
Nov 20, 2019
Thomas Hardy's "During Wind and Rain"
Nov 19, 2019
Carolyn Kizer's "Parents' Pantoum"
Nov 15, 2019
Gwyn Harwood's "A Game of Chess"
Nov 14, 2019
James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost Is on the Pun'kin"
Nov 13, 2019
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Nov 12, 2019
Ted Kooser's "Splitting an Order"
Nov 11, 2019
Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "God's World"
Nov 08, 2019
Robert Penn Warren's "Heart of Autumn"
Nov 07, 2019
Scott Cairns' "Which Tribe, Which River?"
Nov 06, 2019
Maurice Manning's "The Art of Poetry"
Nov 05, 2019
Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder"
Nov 04, 2019
Phyllis McGinley's "November"
Nov 01, 2019
Thomas Hardy's "Last Week in October"
Oct 31, 2019
Richard Wilbur's "October Maples, Portland"
Oct 30, 2019
Edith Wharton's "The Autumn Sunset"
Oct 29, 2019
R.S. Thomas' "Welsh Landscape"
Oct 28, 2019
Julia Ward Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Oct 25, 2019
John Clare's "Badger"
Oct 24, 2019
C.S. Lewis' "Have you not seen?"
Oct 23, 2019
Lewis Carroll's "Mad Gardener's Song"
Oct 22, 2019
Jones Very's "New Birth"
Oct 21, 2019
Stephen Vincent Benet's "Christopher Columbus"
Oct 18, 2019
Charlotte Turner Smith's "Written in October (1797)"
Oct 17, 2019
Ted Hughes' "The Seven Sorrows"
Oct 16, 2019
Robert Penn Warren's "Boy Wandering in Sims Valley"
Oct 15, 2019
Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking"
Oct 14, 2019
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 5)
Oct 11, 2019
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 4)
Oct 10, 2019
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 3)
Oct 09, 2019
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 2)
Oct 08, 2019
Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (part 1)
Oct 07, 2019
Longfellow's "The Fire of Driftwood"
Oct 04, 2019
Shakespeare's Sonnet 30
Oct 03, 2019
Edna Saint Vincent Millay's "Autumn Chant"
Oct 02, 2019
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"
Oct 01, 2019
Louise Bogan's "Putting to Sea"
Sep 30, 2019
Howard Nemerov's "The Dying Garden"
Sep 27, 2019
Alberto Rios' "Don't Go Into the Library"
Sep 24, 2019
John Keats' "To Autumn"
Sep 23, 2019
William Butler Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole"
Sep 20, 2019
Jo Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Sep 19, 2019
Zbigniew Herbert's "A Journey"
Sep 18, 2019
Emily Dickinson's "Summer Begins to Have The Look"
Sep 17, 2019
Mary Jo Salter's "Half a Double Sonnet"
Sep 16, 2019
Christina Rossetti's "Summer Is Ended"
Sep 13, 2019
A.E. Stallings "Listening to Peter and the Wolf with Jason Aged Three"
Sep 12, 2019
Rhina Espaillat's "Bilingual/Bilingue"
Sep 12, 2019
Francis Thompson's "In no Strange Land"
Sep 10, 2019
Howard Nemerov's "Elegy for Summer"
Sep 09, 2019
Seamus Heaney's "Personal Helicon"
Sep 06, 2019
Seamus Heaney's "Two Lorries"
Sep 05, 2019
Seamus Heaney's "Digging"
Sep 04, 2019
Seamus Heaney's "Death of a Naturalist"
Sep 03, 2019
Emily Dickinson's "As Imperceptibly as Grief"
Aug 29, 2019
John Donne's "Twickenham Garden"
Aug 28, 2019
Elizabeth Jennings' "Act of the Imagination"
Aug 27, 2019
A.E. Housman's "When Summer's End Is Nighing"
Aug 26, 2019
Robert Frost's "Hyla Brook"
Aug 23, 2019
Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
Aug 22, 2019
Scott Cairns' "Still Life with Low Cloud and Mist"
Aug 21, 2019
Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Aug 20, 2019
Joshua Alan Sturgill's "As Though a Seed"
Aug 19, 2019
Robert Penn Warren's "August Moon"
Aug 16, 2019
Amy Lowell's "Dog Days"
Aug 15, 2019
Alice Meynell's "The Rainy Summer"
Aug 14, 2019
Langston Hughes' "Summer Night"
Aug 13, 2019
Donald Justice's "there is a gold light in certain old paintings"
Aug 13, 2019
Charles Causley's "I am the Great Sun"
Aug 09, 2019
Maurice Manning's "A Brief Refutation"
Aug 08, 2019
Jane Kenyon's "Three Songs at the End of Summer"
Aug 08, 2019
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare"
Aug 06, 2019
Wendell Berry's "A Poem on Hope"
Aug 05, 2019
William Butler Yeats' "The Cap and Bells"
Jul 16, 2019
Ted Kooser's "So This is Nebraska"
Jul 12, 2019
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Flood"
Jul 11, 2019
Shakespeare's "The Quality of Mercy" speech
Jul 10, 2019
W.H. Auden's "Epitaph of Tyrant"
Jul 09, 2019
Richard Wilbur's "My Father Paints the Summer"
Jul 08, 2019
W.S. Merwin's "Learning a Dead Language"
Jul 05, 2019
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
Jul 03, 2019
William Wordsworth's "it is a beauteous evening"
Jul 02, 2019
A.E. Stallings' "Empathy"
Jul 01, 2019
Henry David Thoreau's "Summer Rain"
Jun 28, 2019
David Wagoner's "Falling Asleep in the Garden"
Jun 27, 2019
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Pied Beauty"
Jun 26, 2019
Rhina Espaillat's "Look Long Enough"
Jun 25, 2019
John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
Jun 24, 2019
Richard Wilbur's "The Writer"
Jun 17, 2019
Siegfried Sassoon's "Everyone Sang"
Jun 14, 2019
Frank O'Hara's "Having a coke with you"
Jun 13, 2019
Robert Wrigley's "Horseflies"
Jun 12, 2019
Thomas Lux's "A Little Tooth"
Jun 11, 2019
Mary Oliver's "Summer Poem"
Jun 10, 2019
Emily Dickinson's "I died for beauty - but was scarce"
Jun 06, 2019
John Masefield's "Sea Fever"
Jun 05, 2019
Howard Nemerov's "Trees"
Jun 04, 2019
Wallace Stevens' "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm"
Jun 03, 2019
Phyllis McGinley's "June in the Suburbs"
May 31, 2019
Denise Levertov's "The Secret"
May 30, 2019
Oh My Darling Clementine
May 28, 2019
Wendell Berry's "The Vacation"
May 24, 2019
Wallace Stevens' "Gallant Chateau"
May 23, 2019
D.H. Lawrence's "A Baby Running Barefoot"
May 22, 2019
"Lonesome Valley" + The Next Memory Contest!
May 20, 2019
Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen"
May 17, 2019
Walter de la Mare's "The Listeners"
May 16, 2019
Wendell Berry's "Her First Calf"
May 14, 2019
Jane Kenyon's "Not Here"
May 13, 2019
Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son"
May 10, 2019
"Starving to Death on a Government Claim"
May 09, 2019
Paul Quenon's "The Mad Monk's Amibition"
May 08, 2019
Christine Perrin's "The Book of Nature"
May 07, 2019
Rhina Espaillat's "Links"
May 06, 2019
Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck"
May 03, 2019
Louis MacNeice's "To Posterity"
May 02, 2019
A Home on the Range
May 01, 2019
Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill"
May 01, 2019
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
Apr 27, 2019
William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
Apr 25, 2019
William Blake's "London"
Apr 24, 2019
Percy Shelley's "Skylark"
Apr 24, 2019
John Updike's "Seven Stanzas for Easter"
Apr 22, 2019
Christina Rossetti's "Good Friday"
Apr 19, 2019
Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"
Apr 18, 2019
Rhina Espaillat's "Workshop"
Apr 17, 2019
Willa Cather's "Paris"
Apr 16, 2019
Hopkins' "Pied Beauty"
Apr 16, 2019
Stevie Smith's "Black March"
Apr 10, 2019
John Donne's "At the Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners"
Apr 09, 2019
Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy"
Apr 09, 2019
e.e. cummings' [in just-]
Apr 05, 2019
Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"
Apr 04, 2019
Edward Lear's "Yonghy Bonghy Bo"
Apr 04, 2019
Richard Wilbur's "A Storm in April"
Apr 03, 2019
Paul Mariani's "Quid Pro Quo"
Apr 01, 2019
Some lines from Emily Wilson's translation of the "Odyssey"
Mar 29, 2019
Janet Lewis' "Remembered Morning"
Mar 28, 2019
Wordsworth's "Lines Written in Early Spring"
Mar 27, 2019
Mary Oliver's "Spring"
Mar 23, 2019
Robert Frost's "Putting in the Seed"
Mar 21, 2019
A few more by W.S. Merwin
Mar 20, 2019
W.S. Merwin's "The Morning"
Mar 20, 2019
W.S. Merwin's "For the Anniversary of My Death"
Mar 19, 2019
Louis MacNeice's "Snow"
Mar 14, 2019
A.E. Housman's "The Loveliest Tree"
Mar 13, 2019
Sara Teasdale's "Barter"
Mar 07, 2019
Malcolm Guite's "Ash Wednesday"
Mar 07, 2019
T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Mar 05, 2019
From Henry Howard's translation of the Aeneid
Mar 05, 2019
Richard Wilbur's "March"
Mar 01, 2019
Tolkien Contest Winners!
Feb 28, 2019
Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book"
Feb 27, 2019
Jane Kenyon's "Let Evening Come"
Feb 26, 2019
William Shakespeare's Mark Antony Speech
Feb 25, 2019
W.H. Auden's "If I Could Tell You"
Feb 22, 2019
Thomas Kinsella's "Mirror in February"
Feb 21, 2019
Donald Justice's "Pantoum of the Great Depression"
Feb 21, 2019
Christine Perrin's "Reading Telemachus"
Feb 19, 2019
George Herbert's "The Pulley"
Feb 18, 2019
From Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 5
Feb 14, 2019
James Schuyler's "February 13, 1975"
Feb 13, 2019
Sylvia Plath's "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber"
Feb 12, 2019
2 Winter Poems from William Carlos Williams
Feb 07, 2019
Natasha Tretheway's "Limen"
Feb 06, 2019
Emily Dickinson's "There Is a Certain Slant of Light"
Feb 05, 2019
Robert Frost's "The Wood Pile"
Feb 04, 2019
Wallace Stevens' "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Jan 30, 2019
William Butler Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole"
Jan 29, 2019
William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming"
Jan 28, 2019
Longfellow's "Snowflakes"
Jan 25, 2019
W.S. Merwin's "To a Leaf Falling on Snow"
Jan 24, 2019
Sara Teasdale's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Jan 23, 2019
A.E. Stallings' "Cast Irony"
Jan 22, 2019
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"
Jan 21, 2019
Maurice Manning's "On Silence"
Jan 17, 2019
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Musical Instrument"
Jan 16, 2019
J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Road Goes Ever On and On" (plus some information on the next memory contest!)
Jan 15, 2019
Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gently"
Jan 14, 2019
W.S. Merwin's "Fox Sleep"
Jan 12, 2019
William Morris' "A Garden by the Sea"
Jan 10, 2019
Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallott"
Jan 09, 2019
Lord Byrons' "So We'll Go No More a Roving"
Jan 08, 2019
Elizabeth Bishop's "Twelfth Morning, or What You Will"
Jan 07, 2019
Malcolm Guite's "Epiphany"
Jan 04, 2019
Phyllis McGinley's "Twelfth Night"
Jan 03, 2019
William Carlos Williams' "Burning the Christmas Greens"
Jan 03, 2019
W.H. Auden's "For the Time Being"
Dec 31, 2018
T.S. Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi"
Dec 28, 2018
William Butler Yeat's "The Mother of God"
Dec 27, 2018
Dorothy Parker's "The Maid-Servant At The Inn"
Dec 26, 2018
Langston Hughes' "Shepherd’s Song at Christmas"
Dec 25, 2018
Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from Saint Nick"
Dec 24, 2018
Lord Tennyson's "Ring Out, Wild Bells"
Dec 20, 2018
A Phyllis McGinley Christmas Poem Sampler
Dec 20, 2018
Wendell Berry's "Our Christmas Tree"
Dec 19, 2018
Richard Wilbur's "A Christmas Hymn"
Dec 17, 2018
John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Dec 14, 2018
Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
Dec 12, 2018
E.E. Cummings' "[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]"
Dec 11, 2018
Billy Collins' "Snow Day"
Dec 10, 2018
Christina Rossetti's "In the Bleak Midwinter"
Dec 06, 2018
Mary Oliver's "The Black Walnut Tree"
Dec 05, 2018
Emily Dickinson's "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"
Dec 03, 2018
William Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
Nov 29, 2018
W.H. Auden's "The Shield of Achilles"
Nov 28, 2018
Wendell Berry's "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front"
Nov 27, 2018
James Matthew Wilson's "The Scar of Odysseus"
Nov 26, 2018
Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Nov 21, 2018
John McRae's "In Flanders Fields"
Nov 20, 2018
Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier"
Nov 20, 2018
Billy Collins' "Love"
Nov 15, 2018
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why"
Nov 14, 2018
William Shakespeare's "to be or not to be" Soliloquy
Nov 13, 2018
John Milton's "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"
Nov 12, 2018
Edward Lear's "The Jumblies"
Nov 09, 2018
Luci Shaw's "Mary's Song"
Nov 08, 2018
Wallace Stevens' "The Idea of Order at Key West"
Nov 07, 2018
John Keats' “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art”
Nov 06, 2018
Contest Winners
Nov 05, 2018
Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art"
Nov 02, 2018
Henry Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" (excerpt from Part III)
Nov 01, 2018
Alfred Noyes' "The Highwayman"
Oct 31, 2018
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
Oct 30, 2018
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Little Ghost"
Oct 30, 2018
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"
Oct 27, 2018
Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
Oct 25, 2018
W.H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen"
Oct 24, 2018
Christina Rossetti's "Shut Out"
Oct 23, 2018
William Carlos William's "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Oct 22, 2018
Scott Cairns' "Early Frost"
Oct 18, 2018
Robert Louis Stevenson's "My Shadow"
Oct 17, 2018
Richard Wilbur's "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
Oct 16, 2018
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116
Oct 15, 2018
John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" (Sonnet X)
Oct 11, 2018
William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"
Oct 10, 2018
Langston Hughes' "A Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Oct 09, 2018
John Keats' "To Autumn"
Oct 08, 2018
Gail Mazur's "Baseball"
Oct 05, 2018
A.A. Milne's "At the Zoo"
Oct 04, 2018
George Herbert's "Love III"
Oct 03, 2018
William Blake's "The Tyger"
Oct 02, 2018
Wendell Berry's Sabbath poem #2 from 1980.
Oct 01, 2018
Mary Oliver's "Tasting the Wild Grapes"
Sep 28, 2018
Thomas Gray's "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes"
Sep 27, 2018
Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking"
Sep 26, 2018
William Wordsworth's "My Heart Leaps Up"
Sep 25, 2018
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Autumn Day"
Sep 24, 2018
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur"
Sep 21, 2018
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn"
Sep 20, 2018
T.S. Eliot's "Preludes"
Sep 19, 2018
Henry Wadworth Longfellow's "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"
Sep 18, 2018
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"
Sep 13, 2018
Robert Browning's "Meeting at Night"
Sep 12, 2018
Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"
Sep 11, 2018
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?"
Sep 10, 2018
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"
Sep 07, 2018
William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Sep 06, 2018
Emily Dickinson's "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died"
Sep 05, 2018
William Shakespeare's Agincourt Speech from Henry V
Sep 04, 2018
Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabelle Lee"
Sep 03, 2018
Rudyard Kipling's If
Aug 31, 2018
William Wordsworth's The World Is Too Much with Us
Aug 30, 2018
Lord Byron’s She Walks in Beauty
Aug 30, 2018
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
Aug 28, 2018
William Shakespeare's Sonnet #18
Aug 27, 2018
Welcome to the Daily Poem Podcast!
Aug 22, 2018