Louise Erdrich ( /ˈɜːrdrɪk/ ER-drik ; [1] born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) [2] is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance . She has written 28 books in all, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books. In 2009, her novel The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for F...
Mar 02, 2022•8 min
Lyuba Yakimchuk was born in Pervomaisk, Luhansk oblast, in 1985. She is a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, and journalist. She is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including Like FASHION and Apricots of Donbas , and the film script for The Building of the Word . Yakimchuk’s awards include the International Slavic Poetic Award and the international “Coronation of the Word” literary contest. Her writing has appeared in magazines in Ukraine, Sweden, Germany, Poland, and Israel. She...
Feb 28, 2022•7 min
Wystan Hugh Auden ( /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/ ; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1] ) was a British-American poet . Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics , morals , love , and religion , and its variety in tone , form , and content . Some of his best known poems are about love, such as " Funeral Blues "; on political and social themes, such as " September 1, 1939 " and " The Shield of Achilles "; on cultural and psychological themes,...
Feb 24, 2022•7 min
Wilson has published six volumes of poetry and more than two hundred poems in various magazines and journals. His published work has been collected in Some Permanent Things Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Wiseblood, 2018) and The Hanging God (Angelico, 2018), The River of the Immaculate Conception (Wiseblood, 2019), and The Strangeness of the Good (Angelico, 2020). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with o...
Feb 23, 2022•11 min
W.S. Merwin received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and 2009; [2] the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005, [3] and the Tanning Prize—one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets —as well as the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings . In 2010, the Library of Congress named him the 17th United States Poet Laureate . [4] [5] Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd ...
Feb 22, 2022•7 min
Jericho Brown (born April 14, 1976) is an American poet and writer. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana , Brown has worked as an educator at institutions such as University of Houston , San Diego State University , and Emory University . His poems have been published in The Nation , New England Review , The New Republic , Oxford American , and The New Yorker , among others. He released his first book of prose and poetry, Please , in 2008. His second book, The New Testament , was released in...
Feb 22, 2022•10 min
John B. Balaban (born December 2, 1943) [1] is an American poet and translator, an authority on Vietnamese literature . [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...
Feb 14, 2022•6 min
Philip Arthur Larkin CH CBE FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship , was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived , followed by The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He contributed to The Daily Telegraph as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, with ...
Feb 11, 2022•5 min
Wystan Hugh Auden ( /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/ ; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1] ) was a British-American poet . Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics , morals , love , and religion , and its variety in tone , form , and content . Some of his best known poems are about love, such as " Funeral Blues "; on political and social themes, such as " September 1, 1939 " and " The Shield of Achilles "; on cultural and psychological themes,...
Feb 10, 2022•10 min
Emily Jane Brontë ( /ˈbrɒnti/ , commonly /-teɪ/ ; [2] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) [3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights , now considered a classic of English literature . She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings , between the youngest Anne and ...
Feb 07, 2022•8 min
Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) [1] was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric . He is best known for Hesperides , a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem " To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time ", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may". 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...
Feb 04, 2022•7 min
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( /ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1] was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in British India , which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including " The Man Who Would Be King " (1888). [2] His poems include " Mandalay " (1890), " Gunga Din " (1890), " The Gods of the Copybook Headings " (1919), " The White Man's Burden: Th...
Feb 03, 2022•5 min
Maurice Manning (born 1966) is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions , was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award , chosen by W.S. Merwin . [1] Since then he has published four collections of poetry (with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Copper Canyon Press ). He teaches English and Creative Writing at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky , where he oversees the Judy Gaines Young Book Award , and is a member of the poetry faculty of the Warren Wil...
Feb 02, 2022•7 min
Lucy Shaw has published ten volumes of poetry (several still in print) and numerous non-fiction books, and has edited and collaborated on multiple other works, including several with Madeleine L'Engle . [6] Her poems are widely anthologized . [1] Shaw usually works in free verse , and typically her poems are quite short, less than a page. Nevertheless, in tone and content, she affiliates most readily with the transcendental poets, often finding in natural details and themes the touch of the eter...
Feb 02, 2022•7 min
Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. [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...
Jan 31, 2022•9 min
Maya Angelou ( /ˈændʒəloʊ/ ( listen ) AN-jə-loh ; [1] [2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist . She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. [3] Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus ...
Jan 22, 2022•8 min
Born in Waterloo, Iowa, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday is the daughter of Northern Soul singer/songwriter Jimmy Holiday. Her father died when she was five, and she and her mother moved to Los Angeles. Holiday earned a BA in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA at Columbia University. She is the author of Negro League Baseball (2011), winner of the Fence Books Motherwell Prize; Go Find your Father/A Famous Blues (Ricochet Editions, 2013), a “dos-a-dos” book featur...
Jan 18, 2022•9 min
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include " Paul Revere's Ride ", The Song of Hiawatha , and Evangeline . He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England. 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, vis...
Jan 12, 2022•7 min
Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin : Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet . He was born in Jakarta , Indonesia , to Chinese parents. [1] His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai , China's first Republican President, [2] who attempted to make himself emperor. Lee's father, who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, relocated his family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University . In 1959 the Lee family fled Indonesia to escape widespread anti-Chinese sen...
Jan 11, 2022•6 min
Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of his generation, Wilbur's work, composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in 1957 and 1989. [1] Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Dec 31, 2021•9 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...
Dec 30, 2021•8 min
Ursula Askham Fanthorpe , CBE , FRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet, who published as U. A. Fanthorpe . Her poetry comments mainly on social issues. 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...
Dec 28, 2021•4 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...
Dec 28, 2021•9 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 ...
Dec 21, 2021•8 min
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás , known in English as George Santayana ( /ˌsæntiˈænə, -ˈɑːnə/ ; [2] December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952), was a philosopher , essayist , poet , and novelist . Originally from Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the US from the age of eight and identified himself as an American, although he always retained a valid Spanish passport . [3] At the age of 48, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently. Santayana...
Dec 16, 2021•7 min
Wystan Hugh Auden ( /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/ ; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1] ) was a British-American poet . Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics , morals , love , and religion , and its variety in tone , form , and content . Some of his best known poems are about love, such as " Funeral Blues "; on political and social themes, such as " September 1, 1939 " and " The Shield of Achilles "; on cultural and psychological themes,...
Dec 15, 2021•8 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 from Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
Dec 14, 2021•5 min
Nancy Willard (June 26, 1936 – February 19, 2017) [1] was an American writer: novelist, poet, author and occasional illustrator of children's books . She won the 1982 Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn . [2] 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...
Dec 14, 2021•6 min
Ayodeji Malcolm Guite ( /ɡaɪt/ ; born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest , and academic. Born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents, Guite earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien , C. S. Lewis , Owen Barfield , and British poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge . He was a Bye-Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Ca...
Dec 06, 2021•7 min
Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. He is considered a war poet , although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences, and his career in poetry only came after he had already been a successful writer and literary critic. In 1915, he enlisted in the British Army to fight in the First World War and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France. Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See a...
Dec 02, 2021•4 min
