The Daily Poem
An audio anthology of the best poetry ever written
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 984
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Henry Taylor's "Somewhere Along the Way"
Poet and translator Henry Taylor was born in Lincoln, Virginia on June 21, 1942. He earned a BA from the University of Virginia and an MA from Hollins University. Taylor’s many poetry collections inc…
Amy Lowell's "Trades"
Today’s poem is a particularly novel example of an ancient writerly tradition: writing about how hard it is to write. Happy reading.
On February 9, 1874, Amy Lowell was born at Sevenels, a ten-acre fa…
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Heaven-Haven"
Today’s poem, subtitled “a nun takes the veil,” is one of Hopkins’ earliest surviving works. Happy reading.
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Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"
Though its author remained otherwise undistinguished, today's poem–with all its ecstasy, agony, and irony–has become almost as essential to the American experience as baseball itself. Happy reading!
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Billy Collins' "Shoveling Snow With Buddha"
Today’s poem is an appreciation of little things. Happy reading.
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James Whitcomb Riley's "When the Frost is on the Punkin"
Today’s poem celebrates the crisp, cool days of early Autumn as the most hospitable season of the year. Happy reading.
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John Masefield's "Laugh and Be Merry"
The world-wandering John Masefield waxes Solomonic in today’s poem. Happy reading.
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Donald Hall's "My Son, My Executioner"
Today’s poem is for everyone who knows that children keep you young, but also know how old you feel while it’s happening.
Hall, taken aback by the success of this poem, expressed some regret that he b…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son"
The title of today’s poem is a mouthful, but it is fittingly emblematic of the poet’s full heart. Happy reading!
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Ben Jonson's "On My First Sonne"
Never have rhyming couplets been so full of pathos as in today’s poem, where they symbolize the bond between father and son, tragically cut short.
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John Keats' "To Autumn"
If pumpkin-spice-everything or the sea of puffy vests and Ugg boots at the cider stand are getting you down, let today’s poem remind you of all that is great about Autumn. Happy reading.
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David McCord's "Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern"
Today’s poem offers a folksy look at the subtleties of terror. Happy reading.
David Thompson Watson McCord was born on December 15, 1897, in New York. A poet and fundraiser, McCord grew up in Portland…
Ogden Nash's "A Word to Husbands"
Today’s poem offers a recipe for domestic bliss. Happy reading.
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Walter Savage Landor's "To Robert Browning"
Though we remember Browning far more readily than we do Landor, this poem dates from a period when their fortunes were reversed and the latter was eager to acquaint the world with the budding talent …
J. R. R. Tolkien's "Mythopoeia"
Today’s poem is a defense of myths and myth-making, inspired by an argument with C. S. Lewis. Happy reading!
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R. S. Thomas' "Poetry for Supper"
Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales…
Dorothy Parker's "The Trifler"
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye …
Louis Untermeyer's "A Man"
Today’s poem offers a needful portrait of ‘manly talk.’ Happy reading.
Louis Untermeyer was the author, editor or compiler, and translator of more than 100 books for readers of all ages. He will be be…
William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"
Today’s poem is one of the most-discussed pieces of twentieth-century verse and, love it or hate it, features one of literature’s best extended metaphors for eternal yearnings–the quest for the great…
Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
If the strained relationship between science and Romanticism had an anthem, it might be today’s poem. Happy reading.
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