Today's poem is by Lucille Clifton, whose birthday was June 27, and it's called "Blessing the Boats." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Galway Kinnell's "St. Francis and the Sow." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Ryan Wilson's "Xenia" -- a thoughtful poem about ancient concepts and contemporary art-making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem(s) are a pair by contemporary poet, Jill Kress Karn: "Holy" and "Unfinished Madonna." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Amy Clampitt's "Lindenbloom," shared in recognition of the 100th anniversary of her birth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Ted Kooser's delightful summer poem, "A Summer Afternoon with Clouds" from his book, Kindest Regards . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Today's poem is John Clare's "Summer Moods" - a good poem for longer, hotter days. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Maya Angelou's "I Still Rise." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is a spiritual called "Many Thousand Gone" (also known as "No More Auction Block"). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Paul Laurence Dunbar's heartbreaking poem, "We Wear the Mask." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Countee Cullen's "To the Swimmer." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Jean Toomer's "Harvest Song." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Gwendolyn Brooks' heartbreaking and beautiful poem, "The Children of the Poor." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Nikki Giovanni's "Rosa Parks". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy," an important poem worth knowing during these days of protest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Garden week continues with E. Nesbit's "The Despot." A poem that takes a different approach than many other garden-themed poems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Garden week on continues with W.H. Auden's poem, "Their Lonely Betters." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Now that summer is here, it's garden week here at The Daily Poem! Each poem selected will have to do with the themes of gardens and gardening. Up first if Andrew Marvell's very famous seventeenth century poem, "The Garden." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Today's poem is by Robert Frost, the great American poet, and it's called "Acquainted with the Night." If you like this episode please be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Today's episode is from Mark Van Doren and Heidi White and Tim McIntosh join David to discuss it briefly . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider" -- a wonderful poem for memorization. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is delivered with the help of a special guest, Jeremiah Kern, and it's Bayard Taylor's "A Night with a Wolf." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Katherine Larson is a poet and a molecular biologist, a fascinating combination that shows up in today's poem, "Metamorphoses." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Today's poem is one I found when reading Robert Hass' book, A Little Book on Form. It's called "poem with lines in any order" and its by Robert Pinsky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Today's poem is John Clare's "The Nightingale's Nest" -- a poem that was unpublished and unknown until 1979. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is from the great Ted Kooser, and its called "Abandoned Farmhouse." If you like this poem be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Today's poem is Thomas Merton's "Elegy for the Monastery Barn." Thanks to Heidi White for filling in for David today. If you like this episode please be sure to rate and review wherever you listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
