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
Louise Glück: Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
Louise Glück, in full Louise Elisabeth Glück, (born April 22, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.), American poet whose willingness to confront the horrible, the difficult, and the painful resulted in a b…
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Thu 08 Oct 2020
Rhina Espaillat's "Gardening"
Rhina P. Espaillat has published ten full-length books and three chapbooks, comprising poetry, essays, and short stories, in both English and her native Spanish, and translations from and into both l…
00:08:13 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
Alice Cary's "Autumn"
Alice Cary (b. April 26, 1820, Mount Healthy, near Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—d. February 12, 1871, New York, New York) and Phoebe Cary (b. September 4, 1824, Mount Healthy, near Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—d…
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Fri 02 Oct 2020
Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Christopher Marlowe, (baptized Feb. 26, 1564, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.—died May 30, 1593, Deptford, near London), Elizabethan poet and Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama, who is …
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Wed 30 Sep 2020
Gwendolyn Brooks' "A Sunset of the City"
Gwendolyn Brooks, in full Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, (born June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kan., U.S.—died Dec. 3, 2000, Chicago, Ill.), American poet whose works deal with the everyday life of urban blacks. …
00:09:34 |
Mon 28 Sep 2020
Donald Hall's "The Long Ranger"
Donald Hall, in full Donald Andrew Hall, Jr., (born September 20, 1928, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.—died June 23, 2018, Wilmot, New Hampshire), American poet, essayist, and critic, whose poetic styl…
00:06:51 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
Yvor Winters' "At the San Francisco Airport"
Yvor Winters, (born Oct. 17, 1900, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 25, 1968, Palo Alto, Calif.), was an American poet, critic, and teacher who held that literature should be evaluated for its moral and…
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Wed 16 Sep 2020
Christina Rossetti's "An Apple Gathering"
Christina Rossetti, in full Christina Georgina Rossetti, pseudonym Ellen Alleyne, (born Dec. 5, 1830, London, Eng.—died Dec. 29, 1894, London), one of the most important of English women poets both …
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Mon 14 Sep 2020
Billy Collins' "The Names"
Today's poem is Billy Collins' "The Names"--a poem written in honor of those who tragically lost their lives on September 11, 2001.
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Fri 11 Sep 2020
Mary Oliver's "Every Morning"
Mary Oliver was born on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio. Her honors include an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, a Lannan Literary Award, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Me…
00:05:58 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches"
Elinor Wylie, née Elinor Morton Hoyt, (born Sept. 7, 1885, Somerville, N.J., U.S.—died Dec. 16, 1928, New York, N.Y.), American poet and novelist whose work, written from an aristocratic and traditio…
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Wed 09 Sep 2020
Luci Shaw's "Time Travel"
Luci Shaw was born in 1928 in London, England, and has lived in Canada, Australia and the U.S.A. A 1953 high honors graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, she became co-founder and later president …
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Fri 04 Sep 2020
H.D.'s "Helen"
Hilda Doolittle, byname H.D., (born September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died September 27, 1961, Zürich, Switzerland), American poet, known initially as an Imagist. She was also a trans…
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Thu 03 Sep 2020
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