Elizabeth (Joan) Jennings CBE (18 July 1926 – 26 October 2001 [1] ) was an English poet. Regarded as traditionalist rather than an innovator, Jennings is known for her lyric poetry and mastery of form. [2] Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with Philip Larkin , Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn , all members of the group of English poets known as The Movement . [2] She always made it clear that, whilst her life, which included a spell of severe mental illness, contributed to the ...
Jun 29, 2021•6 min
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which promoted a return to classical values. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. --Bio via Wikipedia 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...
Jun 28, 2021•7 min
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet , known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers's poetry was written in narrative and epic form. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement . --Bio via Wikipedia. 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 episode...
Jun 22, 2021•7 min
Adrian Rice is from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He graduated from the University of Ulster with a BA in English & Politics, and an MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature. He has delivered writing workshops, readings, and lectures throughout Europe and the United States. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Mason’s Tongue , which was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Literary Prize, and nominated for the Irish Times Prize for Poetry. Hosted on Acast. See a...
Jun 19, 2021•9 min
Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator . Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic Donald Hall who made her the subject of many of his poems. Bio via Wikipedia. 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/subs...
Jun 04, 2021•3 min
Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot , he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism , including the poetry of William Wordsworth . [1] He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England . While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily...
Jun 03, 2021•6 min
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I , and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres , in Belgium . He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem " In Flanders Fields ". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscrib...
Jun 02, 2021•8 min
Walter Whitman ( /ˈhwɪtmən/ ; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist , he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism , incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse . [1] Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribe...
Jun 01, 2021•7 min
Sir Derek Alton Walcott , KCSL , OBE , OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature . [1] He was the University of Alberta 's first distinguished scholar in residence, where he taught undergraduate and graduate writing courses. He also served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achieveme...
May 24, 2021•9 min
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him among the foremost Victorian poets . His poems are noted for irony , characterization , dark humour, social commentary , historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax . His career began well, but shrank for a time. The long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but in 1840 Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure. His renown took over a decade to retu...
May 21, 2021•14 min
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him among the foremost Victorian poets . His poems are noted for irony , characterization , dark humour, social commentary , historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax . His career began well, but shrank for a time. The long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but in 1840 Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure. His renown took over a decade to retu...
May 20, 2021•12 min
Joy Harjo ( /ˈhɑːrdʒoʊ/ HAR-joh ; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Poet Laureate , the first Native American to hold that honor. She is also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to serve three terms. Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation (Este Mvskokvlke) and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). [1] She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20t...
May 19, 2021•7 min
William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet , dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature . A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre , and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State . He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory , Edward Martyn and others. Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
May 19, 2021•7 min
Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. [1] She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard , [2] and she is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi . [3] Bio via Wikipedia 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/...
May 17, 2021•8 min
Theodore J. Kooser (born 25 April 1939) [1] is an American poet . Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. [2] Kooser was one of the first poets laureate selected from the Great Plains, [3] and is known for his conversational style of poetry. [4] Bio via Wikipedia. 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 ac...
May 11, 2021•9 min
Eva Saulitis was intitally trained as a marine biologist and has studied the killer whales of Prince William Sound, Kenai Fjords and the Aleutian Islands and is the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications. Dissatisfied with the objective language and rigid methodology of science, she later turned to creative writing – poetry and the essay – to develop another language with which to address the natural world. Saulitis’ most recent book publications include Into Great Silence: A M...
May 10, 2021•7 min
Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, [1] the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award , [2] and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry . [3] She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU. [4] -Bio via Wikipedia 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 ...
May 06, 2021•9 min
John Keats ( /kiːts/ ; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley , though his poems were in publication for only four years before he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. [1] They were not generally well received by critics in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. [2] By the end of the century he had been placed within the canon of English literature ...
May 05, 2021•6 min
Today's poem is by the Bard are from the final lines of Love's Labours Lost, one of his lesser-known comedies. 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
May 04, 2021•6 min
Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950) [1] is an American poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is Things as It Is ( Copper Canyon Press , 2018). Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been [2] ( Copper Canyon Press , 2010) earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award . [3] [2] She is the winner of several awards in writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts , the American A...
May 03, 2021•9 min
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Encouraged to read the classics at home, she was too rebellious to make a success of formal education, but she won poetry prizes from an early age, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, and went on to use verse as a medium for her feminist activism. She also wrote verse-dramas and a highly-praised opera, The King's Henchman . Her novels appeared under the name Nancy Boyd, and she refused l...
Apr 27, 2021•7 min
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was a Puerto Rican-American [1] poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism . In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, where he served as the hospital's chief of pediatrics from 1924 until his death. The hospital, which is now known as St. Mary's General Hospital , paid tribute to ...
Apr 27, 2021•6 min
Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, Lighthead , won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. [1] In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur fellowships awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work. [2] - Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...
Apr 22, 2021•6 min
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. [1] She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars [2] [3] Her memoir, Ordinary Light , was published in 2015. - Bio via Wikipedia 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...
Apr 21, 2021•7 min
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him among the foremost Victorian poets . His poems are noted for irony , characterization , dark humour, social commentary , historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax . His career began well, but shrank for a time. The long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but in 1840 Sordello was seen as wilfully obscure. His renown took over a decade to retu...
Apr 20, 2021•7 min
Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. [1] He won the 2007 National Book Award [2] and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize [3] for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. [4] In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets . [5] - Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with o...
Apr 19, 2021•9 min
Grace Schulman (born Grace Jan Waldman, 1935, New York City) is an American poet . She received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, awarded by the Poetry Society of America . In 2019, she was inducted as member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. - Bio via Wikipedia 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 d...
Apr 16, 2021•7 min
Charlotte Mary Mew (15 November 1869 – 24 March 1928) was an English poet whose work spans the eras of Victorian poetry and Modernism . - Bio via Wikipedia. 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...
Apr 15, 2021•3 min
Laurence Edward Alan " Laurie " Lee , MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet , novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire . His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and A Moment of War (1991). The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935, and the th...
Apr 14, 2021•7 min
Rhina Polonia Espaillat (born January 20, 1932, La vega , Dominican Republic ) [1] is a bilingual Dominican-American poet and translator who is affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry . She has published eleven collections of poetry. She is known for writing poetry that captures the beauty of the mundane and the routine. [2] - Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss ...
Apr 13, 2021•5 min
