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 languages. Her work appears in many journals, anthologies, and websites, and has earned national and international awards, including the T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry, the Richard Wilbur Award, the Howard Nemerov Prize, the May Sarton Award, the Robert Frost “Tree at My Window” Prize for translation, se...
Oct 07, 2020•8 min
Elizabeth Bishop , (born Feb. 8, 1911, Worcester , Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 6, 1979, Boston , Mass.), American poet known for her polished, witty, descriptive verse. Her short stories and her poetry first were published in The New Yorker and other magazines. -- Britannica.com 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...
Oct 06, 2020•11 min
Wallace Stevens , (born Oct. 2, 1879, Reading , Pa., U.S.—died Aug. 2, 1955, Hartford , Conn.), American poet whose work explores the interaction of reality and what man can make of reality in his mind. It was not until late in life that Stevens was read at all widely or recognized as a major poet by more than a few. --Bio via Britannica.com 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...
Oct 05, 2020•8 min
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. July 31, 1871, Newport, Rhode Island) were also noted for their involvement in the women’s rights movement . --Bio via Britannica.com 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 ep...
Oct 02, 2020•7 min
Sir Walter Raleigh , Raleigh also spelled Ralegh , (born 1554?, Hayes Barton, near Budleigh Salterton, Devon , England—died October 29, 1618, London), English adventurer and writer, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I , who knighted him in 1585. Accused of treason by Elizabeth’s successor, James I , he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to death. --bio via Britannica.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to dis...
Oct 01, 2020•7 min
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 noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse . --Bio via Britannica.com . 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/...
Sep 30, 2020•7 min
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. She was the first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (1950), and in 1968 she was named the poet laureate of Illinois . -- Britannica.com 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 a...
Sep 28, 2020•10 min
Langston Hughes , in full James Mercer Langston Hughes , (born February 1, 1902?, Joplin , Missouri , U.S.—died May 22, 1967, New York , New York), American writer who was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and made the African American experience the subject of his writings, which ranged from poetry and plays to novels and newspaper columns. -- Bio via Britannica.com . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...
Sep 23, 2020•6 min
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 style moved from studied formalism to greater emphasis on personal expression. - - bio from Brittanica.com 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.subs...
Sep 21, 2020•7 min
T.S. Eliot , in full Thomas Stearns Eliot , (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri , U.S.—died January 4, 1965, London , England), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction , style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and...
Sep 18, 2020•9 min
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 intellectual content as well as on aesthetic grounds. --Bio from Britannica.com 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...
Sep 16, 2020•8 min
Claude McKay , (born September 15, 1889, Nairne Castle, Jamaica , British West Indies—died May 22, 1948, Chicago , Illinois , U.S.), Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by an American black to that time. Before going to the U.S. in 1912, he wrote two volumes of Jamaican dialect verse, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads (1912). --Bio via Britannica.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode...
Sep 15, 2020•6 min
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 in range and quality. She excelled in works of fantasy, in poems for children, and in religious poetry . --Bio from Britannica.com 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 episo...
Sep 14, 2020•8 min
Today's poem is Billy Collins' "The Names"--a poem written in honor of those who tragically lost their lives on September 11, 2001. 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...
Sep 11, 2020•6 min
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 Memorial Prize and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Oliver held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College until 2001. She lived for over forty years in Provincetown, Massac...
Sep 10, 2020•6 min
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 traditionalist point of view, reflected changing American attitudes in the aftermath of World War I . -- Bio via Britannica.com 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, visi...
Sep 09, 2020•11 min
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 of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. Shaw is a frequent retreat facilitator and leads writing workshops in church and university settings. She has lectured in North America and abroad on topics such as art and spirituality, the...
Sep 04, 2020•9 min
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 translator, novelist-playwright, and self-proclaimed “pagan mystic.” -- Brittanica.com 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...
Sep 03, 2020•7 min
Eugene Field , (born September 2, 1850, St. Louis, Missouri , U.S.—died November 4, 1895, Chicago , Illinois), American poet and journalist, best known, to his disgust, as the “poet of childhood.” -- Brittanica.com 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...
Sep 02, 2020•8 min
Hayden Carruth was born Aug. 3, 1921 in Waterbury , Conn., U.S. and died Sept. 29, 2008, Munnsville, N.Y. He was American poet and literary critic best known for his jazz-influenced style and for works that explore mental illness . -- Brittanica.com 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...
Aug 31, 2020•9 min
Mary Jo Salter is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently The Surveyors (2017). She is also a lyricist whose song cycle “Rooms of Light: The Life of Photographs" was composed by Fred Hersch. Her children’s book The Moon Comes Home appeared in 1989; her play Falling Bodies premiered in 2004. She is also a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry (4th edition, 1996; 5th edition, 2005; 6th edition, 2018). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public ep...
Aug 28, 2020•10 min
Today's poem is Marilyn Chin's "Turtle Soup." 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
Aug 27, 2020•10 min
Today's poem is Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist." 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
Aug 26, 2020•10 min
Today's poem is Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist." 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
Aug 26, 2020•10 min
Today's poem is Robert Herrick's "The Argument of his Book." 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
Aug 24, 2020•8 min
Today's poem is Donald Justice's "The Evening of the Mind." 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
Aug 20, 2020•7 min
Today's poem is Percy Shelley's "Mont Blanc." 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
Aug 19, 2020•11 min
Today's poem is Billy Collins' "Aristotle." 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
Aug 18, 2020•12 min
Today's poem is Ted Hughes' "The Thought Fox." Happy birthday to Ted Hughes. 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
Aug 17, 2020•8 min
Today's poem is Lewis Carroll's "A Pig-Tale." 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
Aug 14, 2020•5 min
