The Daily Poem
An audio anthology of the best poetry ever written
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 985
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman"
Anne Spencer's "For Jim, Easter Eve"
H.D.'s "Sheltered Garden"
Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Poun…
Howard Nemerov's "Watching Football on TV"
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990.[1] F…
Happy 100th Birthday to Richard Wilbur
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Henry Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"
James Russell Lowell's "The Sirens"
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
Bio via Britannica.com:
Edna St. Vincent Millay, (born February 22, 1892, Rockland, Maine, U.S.—died October 19, 1950, Austerlitz, New York), American poet and dramatist who came to personify romantic…
W.H. Auden's "Ode to the Medieval Poets"
Yesterday was W.H. Auden's birthday, so here's one of his great ones.
Bio via Wikipedia:
Wystan Hugh Auden (/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet. Au…
Nancy Willard's "The Snow Arrives after Long Silence"
A poem dedicated to this long, cold winter.
Nancy Willard (June 26, 1936 – February 19, 2017)[1] was an American writer: novelist, poet, author and occasional illustrator of children's books. She won…
James Matthew Wilson's "A Common Tongue"
Wilson is a poet and critic of contemporary poetry, whose work appears regularly in such magazines and journals as First Things, The Wall Street Journal, The Hudson Review, Modern Age, The New Crit…
Kate Baer's "Motherload"
Maurice Manning's "Railsplitter"
In recognition of President's Day, today's poem is in the posthumous voice of Abraham Lincoln, as imagined by Kentucky poet Maurice Manning.
Kentucky poet Maurice Manning has published five books of …
Joshua Alan Sturgill's "Feast of Books"
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E.E. Cummings' "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Gladly Beyond"
Luci Shaw's "Advent Visitation"
This week we're sharing Luci Shaw's advent and Christmas-themed poems with you. Up next: "Advent Visitation. "
Biography from LuciShaw.com
Luci Shaw was born in 1928 in London, England, and has lived i…