Mark Reads to You

By Mark Coen

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A podcast started so you can hear someone else’s voice while you’re being socially distant. One poem a day, just to give you a break. Enjoy!

Episode Date
Alexander: Praise Song for the Day
Jan 22, 2021
Williams: Of History and Hope
Jan 21, 2021
Angelou: On the Pulse of Morning
Jan 20, 2021
Frost: The Gift Outright
Jan 19, 2021
Frost: Dedication
Jan 18, 2021
Week 45: Inaugural Poems
Jan 17, 2021
Glück: Vespers
Jan 16, 2021
Collins: Cheerios
Jan 15, 2021
Kunitz: Passing Through
Jan 14, 2021
Pinsky: Glass
Jan 13, 2021
Hass: The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate
Jan 12, 2021
Dove: Testimonial
Jan 11, 2021
Week 44: US Poets Laureate, Part II
Jan 10, 2021
Sandburg: Chicago
Jan 09, 2021
Sandburg: Under the Harvest Moon
Jan 08, 2021
Sandburg: Fog
Jan 07, 2021
Sandburg: The Answer
Jan 07, 2021
Sandburg: Caboose Thoughts
Jan 06, 2021
Sandburg: At a Window
Jan 05, 2021
Sandburg: Accomplished Facts
Jan 04, 2021
Week 43: Carl Sandburg
Jan 03, 2021
Purpura: Resolution
Jan 02, 2021
Merwin: To the New Year
Jan 01, 2021
Shockley: on new year's eve
Dec 31, 2020
Wilcox: The Year
Dec 30, 2020
Clare: The Old Year
Dec 29, 2020
Nye: Burning the Old Year
Dec 28, 2020
Week 42: New Year
Dec 27, 2020
Nesbitt: December 26
Dec 26, 2020
Church: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Dec 25, 2020
Moore: A Visit from St. Nicholas
Dec 24, 2020
Arthur: Model-Train Display at Christmas in a Shopping Mall Food Court
Dec 23, 2020
Rossetti: In the bleak midwinter
Dec 22, 2020
cummings: [little tree]
Dec 21, 2020
Week 41: Christmas
Dec 20, 2020
Michelson: Elijah vs. Santa
Dec 19, 2020
Baker: A Hanukkah Prayer for a Time of Darkness
Dec 18, 2020
Galvin: Letters Spoken in Wind
Dec 17, 2020
Repp: Honorary Jew
Dec 16, 2020
Piercy: Season of Skinny Candles
Dec 15, 2020
Raskin: The Miracle
Dec 14, 2020
Week 40: Hanukkah
Dec 13, 2020
O'Hara: Ave Maria
Dec 12, 2020
Eady: Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
Dec 11, 2020
Swenson: The James Bond Movie
Dec 10, 2020
Ginsberg: The Blue Angel
Dec 09, 2020
Salter: Video Blues
Dec 08, 2020
Brown: Silent Film
Dec 07, 2020
Week 39: Poems about Movies
Dec 06, 2020
Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night
Dec 05, 2020
Blake: The Tyger
Dec 04, 2020
Neruda: And Now You're Mine
Dec 03, 2020
Auden: Funeral Blues
Dec 02, 2020
Herrick: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Dec 01, 2020
Henley: Invictus
Nov 30, 2020
Week 38: Poems in Movies
Nov 29, 2020
Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 9
Nov 28, 2020
Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 8
Nov 27, 2020
Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 7
Nov 27, 2020
Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 6
Nov 26, 2020
Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 5
Nov 26, 2020
Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 4
Nov 25, 2020
Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 3
Nov 24, 2020
Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 2
Nov 23, 2020
Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 1
Nov 23, 2020
Week 37: The Courtship of Miles Standish
Nov 22, 2020
Achebe: Knowing Robs Us
Nov 21, 2020
Achebe: Biafra, 1969
Nov 20, 2020
Achebe: He Loves Me; He Loves Me Not
Nov 19, 2020
Achebe: The Nigerian Census
Nov 18, 2020
Achebe: Love Song (for Anna)
Nov 17, 2020
Achebe: A Mother in a Refugee Camp
Nov 16, 2020
Week 36: Chinua Achebe
Nov 15, 2020
Soos: The Blue Fish
Nov 14, 2020
Rathburn: A Raft of Grief
Nov 14, 2020
Green: for grandma
Nov 13, 2020
Mayson: Our Brother
Nov 12, 2020
Rozga: For a Child on Her Own
Nov 11, 2020
Lang-Cassera: Quiet Moments
Nov 10, 2020
Rios: Copper and Oranges
Nov 09, 2020
Week 35: "State" Poets Laureate
Nov 08, 2020
Duhamel: Exquisite Politics
Nov 07, 2020
Dargan: A House Divided
Nov 06, 2020
Nezhukumatathil: One Vote
Nov 05, 2020
O'Neil: Old South Meeting House
Nov 04, 2020
Whitman: Election Day, November, 1884
Nov 03, 2020
Rios: A House Called Tomorrow
Nov 02, 2020
Week 34: Election Day
Nov 01, 2020
Poe: The Raven
Oct 31, 2020
Poe: Lenore
Oct 30, 2020
Poe: Annabel Lee
Oct 29, 2020
Poe: The Bells
Oct 28, 2020
Poe: Spirits of the Dead
Oct 27, 2020
Poe: The Sleeper
Oct 26, 2020
Week 33: Edgar Allan Poe
Oct 25, 2020
Van Duyn: The Burning of Yellowstone
Oct 24, 2020
Brodsky: 1 January 1965
Oct 23, 2020
Strand: The Idea
Oct 22, 2020
Nemerov: To David, About His Education
Oct 21, 2020
Wilbur: Some Words Inside of Words
Oct 20, 2020
Warren: Bearded Oaks
Oct 19, 2020
Week 32: US Poets Laureate, Part I
Oct 18, 2020
Glück: Afterword
Oct 17, 2020
Glück: Mother and Child
Oct 16, 2020
Glück: A Myth of Devotion
Oct 15, 2020
Glück: Archipelago
Oct 14, 2020
Glück: Elms
Oct 13, 2020
Glück: Dawn
Oct 12, 2020
Week 31: Louise Glück
Oct 11, 2020
Liston: little people of IKEA
Oct 10, 2020
Landgraf: What's Left
Oct 09, 2020
White: How to Lie to Your Mother
Oct 08, 2020
Smith: Of Property
Oct 07, 2020
Martinez: Consider Oedipus's Father
Oct 06, 2020
Spaide: LACK
Oct 05, 2020
Week 30: Wedding Anniversary
Oct 04, 2020
Carruth: Bears at Raspberry Time
Oct 03, 2020
Mitchell: The Bear
Oct 02, 2020
Bly: The Bear and the Man
Oct 01, 2020
Simonds: "There was this bearcam"
Sep 30, 2020
Matthews: The Bear at the Dump
Sep 29, 2020
Harte: Grizzly
Sep 28, 2020
Week 29: Fat Bear Week
Sep 27, 2020
Oliver: Song for Autumn
Sep 26, 2020
Wilbur: The Beautiful Changes
Sep 25, 2020
Shakespeare: Sonnet 73
Sep 24, 2020
Gibb: For the Chipmunk in My Yard
Sep 23, 2020
Johns: Fall Equinox
Sep 22, 2020
Borowicz: September Tomatoes
Sep 21, 2020
Week 28: Fall
Sep 20, 2020
Silverstein: Sick
Sep 19, 2020
Wagoner: My Physics Teacher
Sep 18, 2020
Mora: Ode to Teachers
Sep 17, 2020
Ahlberg: Please Mrs. Butler
Sep 16, 2020
Hughes: Theme for English B
Sep 15, 2020
Nemerov: September, The First Day Of School
Sep 14, 2020
Week 27: School
Sep 13, 2020
Hayes: Joe Hill
Sep 12, 2020
Espada: Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Sep 11, 2020
Espaillat: “Find Work”
Sep 10, 2020
Pinsky: Shirt
Sep 09, 2020
Graham: The Day After Labor Day
Sep 08, 2020
Millar: Labor Day
Sep 07, 2020
Week 26: Labor Day
Sep 06, 2020
Hadas: The End of Summer
Sep 05, 2020
Trowbridge: Summer’s Almost Gone
Sep 04, 2020
Housman: [When summer’s end is nighing]
Sep 03, 2020
Millay: The End of Summer
Sep 02, 2020
Dickinson: [As imperceptibly as Grief]
Sep 01, 2020
Turbyfill: End of Summer
Aug 31, 2020
Week 25: End of Summer
Aug 30, 2020
Gioia: Finding a Box of Family Letters
Aug 29, 2020
Lindsay: The Old Mail Coach to Belton
Aug 28, 2020
Hernandez: At the Post Office
Aug 27, 2020
Harrison: Mailboxes in Late Winter
Aug 26, 2020
Tracy: Stamps
Aug 25, 2020
Kooser: Post Office
Aug 24, 2020
Week 24: Mail
Aug 23, 2020
Stanton: To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday
Aug 22, 2020
Gilman: The Anti-Suffragists
Aug 21, 2020
Ridge: To the Others
Aug 20, 2020
Harper: Aunt Chloe’s Politics
Aug 19, 2020
Fisher: Alice Paul
Aug 18, 2020
Gilman: We As Women
Aug 17, 2020
Week 23: Women’s Suffrage
Aug 16, 2020
Frank: The Moon’s Magnetic Field Once Came from an Asteroid
Aug 15, 2020
Handal: Holy Cosmos
Aug 14, 2020
Sze: Comet Hyakutake
Aug 13, 2020
Rogers: Watching the Perseids
Aug 12, 2020
Scruton: Watching the Comet on Easter Evening
Aug 11, 2020
Lesemann: On An Evening of Bright Meteors
Aug 10, 2020
Week 22: Space Rocks
Aug 09, 2020
Teasdale: Afterwards
Aug 08, 2020
Teasdale: In Florence
Aug 07, 2020
Teasdale: Barter
Aug 06, 2020
Teasdale: There Will Come Soft Rains
Aug 05, 2020
Teasdale: Old Love and New
Aug 04, 2020
Teasdale: Leaves
Aug 03, 2020
Week 21: Sara Teasdale
Aug 02, 2020
Thayer: Casey at the Bat
Aug 01, 2020
Smith: Devotion : Baseball
Jul 31, 2020
Evans: Old Men Watching Baseball
Jul 30, 2020
Blackburn: 7th Game : 1960 Series
Jul 29, 2020
McDonough: We’re Human Beings
Jul 28, 2020
Dybek: Clothespins
Jul 27, 2020
Week 20: Baseball
Jul 26, 2020
Updike: Back From Vacation
Jul 25, 2020
Hilbert: AAA Vacation Guide
Jul 24, 2020
Slater: Family Vacation
Jul 23, 2020
Allen: If You Get There Before I Do
Jul 22, 2020
Grotz: Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City
Jul 21, 2020
Dove: Vacation
Jul 20, 2020
Week 19: Vacation
Jul 19, 2020
Bancquart: [It’s Been Two Thousand Years Now]
Jul 18, 2020
Jacob: Ballad of the Country Exile
Jul 17, 2020
Rimbaud: A Season in Hell
Jul 16, 2020
Verlaine: Clair de Lune
Jul 15, 2020
National Assembly: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Jul 14, 2020
Chènier: The Young Captive
Jul 13, 2020
Week 18: France
Jul 12, 2020
de Góngora: Of Human Ambition
Jul 11, 2020
Espiru: Catalan
Jul 10, 2020
Radcliffe: Air
Jul 09, 2020
de la Fontaine: To Promise is One Thing to Keep it, Another
Jul 08, 2020
Walker: For My People
Jul 07, 2020
Chagall: Mine Alone is the Country in My Soul
Jul 06, 2020
Week 17: Birthdays
Jul 05, 2020
Harjo: Praise the Rain
Jul 04, 2020
Service: The Cremation of Sam McGee
Jul 03, 2020
Marriott: Prairie Graveyard
Jul 02, 2020
Cogswell: New Brunswick
Jul 01, 2020
Davies: Frosty Porch Blues
Jun 30, 2020
Collins: Canada
Jun 29, 2020
Week 16: Canada
Jun 28, 2020
Rexroth: Proust’s Madeleine
Jun 27, 2020
Bradstreet: To Her Father with Some Verses
Jun 26, 2020
Bottoms: Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
Jun 25, 2020
Monsour: Fifteen
Jun 24, 2020
Lee: The Gift
Jun 23, 2020
Heaney: Digging
Jun 22, 2020
Week 15: Dads
Jun 21, 2020
Sherwood: The World in the Evening
Jun 20, 2020
Chitwood: Summer Job
Jun 19, 2020
Youn: A Parking Lot in West Houston
Jun 18, 2020
Piercy: More Than Enough
Jun 17, 2020
Walcott: Bleeker Street, Summer
Jun 16, 2020
Smith: Summer of the Ladybird
Jun 15, 2020
Week 14: Summer
Jun 14, 2020
Laviera: lady liberty
Jun 13, 2020
Brooks: Boy Breaking Glass
Jun 12, 2020
Villanueva: You, If No One Else
Jun 11, 2020
McKay: America
Jun 10, 2020
Espada: The Sign in My Father’s Hands
Jun 09, 2020
Angelou: Caged Bird
Jun 08, 2020
Week 13: Protest
Jun 07, 2020
Hardy: The Last Performance
Jun 06, 2020
Hardy: How She Went to Ireland
Jun 05, 2020
Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
Jun 04, 2020
Hardy : The Voice
Jun 03, 2020
Hardy: At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
Jun 01, 2020
Week 12: Thomas Hardy
May 31, 2020
Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth
May 30, 2020
Binyon: For the Fallen
May 29, 2020
Melville: Shiloh: A Requiem
May 28, 2020
Letts: The Spires of Oxford
May 27, 2020
McCrae: In Flanders Fields
May 26, 2020
Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
May 25, 2020
Week 11: Memorial Day
May 24, 2020
Rossetti: Up-Hill
May 23, 2020
Zapruder: Graduation Day
May 22, 2020
Mazur: Poem for Christian, My Student
May 21, 2020
Baudelaire: Be Drunk
May 20, 2020
Guest: It Couldn’t Be Done
May 19, 2020
Horton: The Graduate Leaving College
May 18, 2020
Week 10: Graduation
May 17, 2020
Kasdorf: What I Learned From My Mother
May 16, 2020
Nordhaus: A Dandelion for My Mother
May 15, 2020
Mills: How You Know
May 14, 2020
Fogel: If I Sleep While My Baby Sleeps
May 13, 2020
Lansky: On Mother’s Day
May 12, 2020
Poe: To My Mother
May 11, 2020
Week 9: Moms
May 10, 2020
Browning: My Last Duchess
May 09, 2020
Browning: Memorabilia
May 08, 2020
Browning: Among the Rocks
May 07, 2020
Browning: Love in a Life
May 06, 2020
Browning: Epilogue
May 05, 2020
Browning: My Star
May 04, 2020
Week 8: Robert Browning
May 03, 2020
Whitman: Out From Behind His Mask
May 02, 2020
Sandburg: Mask
May 01, 2020
Divakaruni: Tiger Mask Ritual
Apr 30, 2020
Lindenberg: Carnival
Apr 29, 2020
Thomas: O Make Me a Mask
Apr 28, 2020
Dunbar: We Wear the Mask
Apr 27, 2020
Week 7: Masks
Apr 26, 2020
Longfellow: Paul Revere’s Ride
Apr 25, 2020
Adams: The Divine Source of Liberty
Apr 24, 2020
Wheatley: On Virtue
Apr 23, 2020
Freneau: The American Soldier
Apr 22, 2020
Bradstreet: The Author to Her Book
Apr 21, 2020
Emerson: Concord Hymn
Apr 20, 2020
Week 6: Patriot’s Day and Colonial America
Apr 19, 2020
Grimké: The Eyes of My Regret
Apr 18, 2020
Li: Ancient Air
Apr 17, 2020
Dickinson: “Hope” is the thing with feathers
Apr 16, 2020
McKay: After the Winter
Apr 15, 2020
Kalidasa: Look to This Day
Apr 14, 2020
cummings: [as freedom is a breakfastfood]
Apr 13, 2020
Week 5: Poems With Friends
Apr 12, 2020
Feld: Leaving Egypt
Apr 11, 2020
Rossetti: Good Friday
Apr 10, 2020
Levi: Passover
Apr 09, 2020
Housman: Easter Hymn
Apr 08, 2020
Wilde: Easter Day
Apr 07, 2020
Herbert: Easter Wings
Apr 06, 2020
Week 4: Easter and Passover
Apr 05, 2020
Wilbur: A Storm in April
Apr 04, 2020
Whittier: What the Birds Said
Apr 03, 2020
Wood: Berkshires in April
Apr 02, 2020
Millay: Spring
Apr 01, 2020
Browning: Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Mar 31, 2020
Hughes: April Rain Song
Mar 30, 2020
Week 3: April
Mar 29, 2020
Longfellow:The Building of the Ship
Mar 28, 2020
Millay: Ragged Island
Mar 27, 2020
Carpenter: The Tourists
Mar 26, 2020
Booth: Eaton’s Boatyard
Mar 25, 2020
Jewett: A Country Boy in Winter
Mar 24, 2020
Robinson: Mr. Flood’s Party
Mar 23, 2020
Week 2: Maine
Mar 22, 2020
Yeats: The Song of Wandering Aengus
Mar 21, 2020
Yeats: The Second Coming
Mar 20, 2020
Yeats: Easter, 1916
Mar 19, 2020
Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole
Mar 18, 2020
Yeats: The Lake Isle of Inisfree
Mar 17, 2020
Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
Mar 16, 2020
Mark Reads to You (Trailer)
Mar 15, 2020