The Daily Poem

Rhina Espaillat's "Things That Go"

Rhina Polonia Espaillat (born January 20, 1932, La vega, Dominican Republic)[1] is a bilingual Dominican-American poet and translator who is affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formali…

00:05:12 | Tue 13 Apr 2021

A.E. Housman's "Smooth Between Sea and Land"

Alfred Edward Housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad wistfully evoke the …

00:09:24 | Mon 12 Apr 2021

Rosalie Grayer's "Altar Smoke"

Today's poem is an Easter-themed poem from Rosalie Grayer.

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00:06:58 | Mon 05 Apr 2021

From "The Dream of the Rood"

The Dream of the Rood is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry. Like most Old English poetry, it is written in alliterative ve…

00:09:12 | Fri 02 Apr 2021

The World's Greatest Poem

Let's kick off April with the world's greatest poems.

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00:03:08 | Thu 01 Apr 2021

A.E. Housman's "A Lent Lilly"

Alfred Edward Housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad wistfully evoke the …

00:05:50 | Wed 31 Mar 2021

G.K. Chesterton's "The Donkey"

Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,[2] philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".[3] …

00:05:56 | Tue 30 Mar 2021

Amy Lowell's "Opal"

Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which was promoting a return to classical values. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry …

00:07:31 | Mon 29 Mar 2021

Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Ledore"

Robert Southey (/ˈsaʊði/ or /ˈsʌði/;[a] 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wor…

00:05:14 | Fri 26 Mar 2021

e.e. cummings' "in just"

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works,[1] was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, an…

00:06:24 | Thu 25 Mar 2021

Charlotte Mew's "In the Fields"

Charlotte Mary Mew (15 November 1869 – 24 March 1928) was an English poet whose work spans the eras of Victorian poetry and Modernism. - Bio via Wikipedia.

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00:05:52 | Wed 24 Mar 2021

William Morris' "Spring's Bedfellow"

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major …

00:08:24 | Tue 23 Mar 2021

R.S. Thomas' "The Spring Equinox"

Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisat…

00:07:00 | Tue 23 Mar 2021

William Wordsworth's "Written in March"

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication …

00:06:51 | Thu 18 Mar 2021