The Daily Poem

Today’s poem is by Christian Wiman, an American poet and editor born in 1966 and raised in the small west Texas town of Snyder.[1] He graduated from Washington and Lee University and has taught at No…

Today’s poem is by John Edward Masefield OM (/ˈmeɪsˌfiːld, ˈmeɪz-/; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967), an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the …

Today’s poem is by James Raymond Daniels (born 1956 in Detroit, Michigan), an American poet and writer. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the writer Kristin Kovacic. Daniels was on the faculty of…

Today is Memorial Day so in this episode we present three notable poems from among the many memorable poems of the World War I era. Memory eternal to all of the brave men and women who gave up their …

Today’s poem is by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber; /ˈkroʊbər lə ˈɡwɪn/ KROH-bər lə GWIN;[1] October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018), an American author best known for her works of speculative ficti…

Today poem is from Sir John Betjeman CBE (/ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984), an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding membe…

Today’s poem is by Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906), an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries . . . Dunbar became the first …

Today’s poem comes from American poet Jane Kenyon, who would have been seventy-five today had she not died in 1995 at the age of forty-seven.

Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emo…

What better way to bring back The Daily Poem than with a poem by one of my favorite poets, Seamus Heaney.

Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Lite…

After a too-long hiatus, The Daily Poem is coming back with new episodes every week day, starting Monday, May 22.

As a small taste, click play to hear a wonderful poem from the great English poet, Ce…

Joy Harjo (/ˈhɑːrdʒoʊ/ HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor…

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words…

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the po…

Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939)[1] is an American poet. Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006.[2]Kooser …

Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2] Among his best-known w…

Louise Elisabeth Glück (/ɡlɪk/, GLICK;[1][2] born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice tha…

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Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Priz…