James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and memoir. He wrote screenplays, book reviews, literary criticism, and published essays on food, travel, and sport. Harrison indicated that, of all his writing, his poetry meant the most to him. [1] : 1 He published 24 novellas during his lifetime ...
Dec 01, 2021•9 min
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age . What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". [2] His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim h...
Nov 30, 2021•6 min
Jamaal May is an American poet from Detroit . [1] [2] May was included in the Best American Poetry anthology from 2014. May lived in Detroit, where he taught poetry in public schools. He received an MFA from Warren Wilson College . [3] May has taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts , and was a fellow at the Kenyon Review between 2014 and 2016. [4] [5] May cites Vievee Francis, another poet from Detroit, as an influence and mentor. His work has appeared in The Believer , Poetry , and Ploughsh...
Nov 15, 2021•7 min
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. [3] She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry . - 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...
Nov 11, 2021•10 min
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (English: /tʊərˈɡɛnjɛf, -ˈɡeɪn-/ ; [1] Russian: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев [note 1] , IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf] ; 9 November [ O.S. 28 October] 1818 – 3 September 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism . His novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is...
Nov 10, 2021•6 min
Kara Jackson is a singer/songwriter, musician, and writer from Oak Park, Illinois. Jackson served as the third National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019– 2020. She is the author of Bloodstone Cowboy. 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...
Nov 08, 2021•6 min
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( /rəˈzɛti/ ), [1] was an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais . Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones . His work...
Nov 04, 2021•7 min
Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster , England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London and at Trinity College, Oxford , where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1891. He worked for the British Museum from 1893 until his retirement in 1933. In 1904 he married the historian Cicely Margaret Powell, with whom he had three daughters, includin...
Nov 03, 2021•9 min
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist , cultural critic , and farmer. [1] He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers , a recipient of The National Humanities Medal , and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award . [2] On January 28, 2015, he became the f...
Nov 02, 2021•7 min
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet . She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri , and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage in 1914. [1 In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs . 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....
Oct 18, 2021•9 min
Naomi Shihab Nye ( Arabic : نعومي شهاب ناي; born March 12, 1952) is a poet , songwriter , and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother. She began composing her first poem at the age of six and has published or contributed to over 30 volumes. Her works include poetry, young-adult fiction, picture books, and novels. [1] Although she calls herself a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home. She says a visit to her grandmother in the West Bank village of ...
Aug 23, 2021•7 min
Bryana Joy is a writer, poet, and full-time artist who believes in the subtle power of Story to challenge and change us. In 2018, she launched the Letters From The Sea Tower , a handmade monthly subscription letter full of watercolor sketches, paintings, and snippets of glory from the Great Books. Her poetry has appeared in over two dozen literary magazines, including Beloit Poetry Journal , Chestnut Review , and Blue Earth Review . In her shop, she offers original watercolor paintings, travel s...
Aug 18, 2021•7 min
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and Scottish literature . Famous titles include the novels Ivanhoe , Rob Roy , Waverley , Old Mortality (or The Tale of Old Mortality ), The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor , and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion . Although primarily remembered...
Aug 16, 2021•7 min
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American 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 Williams with a ...
Aug 09, 2021•8 min
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. She published in her own name at a time when most women writers remained anonymous. 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 05, 2021•6 min
Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. 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/subscrib...
Aug 04, 2021•6 min
Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry." [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 subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Aug 03, 2021•6 min
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley , although his poems were in publication for only four years before he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. [1] They were indifferently 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 in the canon of English literature and become the inspiration for the ...
Jul 26, 2021•6 min
Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA ( /ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/ ; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature . [1] [2] Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats ", and many others, in...
Jul 23, 2021•5 min
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie ( /ˈɡʌθri/ ; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, and one of the most significant figures in American folk music . 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...
Jul 22, 2021•9 min
Alun Lewis (1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944) was a Welsh poet. He is one of the best-known English-language poets of the Second World War . [1] [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 with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Jul 21, 2021•8 min
Theodore Huebner Roethke ( /ˈrɛtki/ RET-kee ; [1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963 ) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking , and the annual National Book Award for Poetry on two occasions: in 1959 for Words for the Wind , [2] and posthumously in 1965 for The Far Field . [3] [4] His work was characterized by its introspection, rhythm and natural imagery . B...
Jul 20, 2021•8 min
William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. [1] [2] He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (retired, 2016). Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. [3] As of 2020, he is a teacher in the...
Jul 19, 2021•10 min
Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist and writer. Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time ; He, She and It , which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award ; and Gone to Soldiers , a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II. Piercy's work is rooted in her Jewish heritage, Communist social and political activism, and feminist ideals. Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a pu...
Jul 12, 2021•9 min
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. [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 with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe...
Jul 07, 2021•7 min
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley , although his poems were in publication for only four years before he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. [1] They were indifferently 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 in the canon of English literature and become the inspiration for the ...
Jul 06, 2021•7 min
John Meade Haines (June 29, 1924 – March 2, 2011) was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska . 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...
Jul 05, 2021•9 min
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize . Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild. It is characterised by a sincere wonderment at the impact of natural imagery, conveyed in unadorned language. In 2007 she was declared to be the country's best-selling poet. Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Jul 02, 2021•6 min
Michael Dana Gioia ( /ˈdʒɔɪ.ə/ ; born December 24, 1950) is an American poet , literary critic , literary translator, and essayist. Gioia was born into a working class family of Mexican and Sicilian descent and grew up attending Roman Catholic parochial schools in Hawthorne and Gardena, California . After becoming the first member of his family to attend college, Gioia graduated from both Stanford University and Harvard University . He spent the first fifteen years of his literary career writing...
Jul 01, 2021•7 min
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. [2] Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. -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 30, 2021•7 min
