Today’s poem is by Christian Wiman , an American poet and editor born in 1966 and raised in the small west Texas town of Snyder. [1] He graduated from Washington and Lee University and has taught at Northwestern University, Stanford University, Lynchburg College in Virginia, and the Prague School of Economics. In 2003, he became editor of the oldest American magazine of verse, Poetry , [2] a role he stepped down from in June 2013. [3] Wiman is now on the faculty of Yale University , where he tea...
Jun 02, 2023•10 min
Today’s poem is by John Edward Masefield OM ( /ˈmeɪsˌfiːld, ˈmeɪz-/ ; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967), an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights , and the poems The Everlasting Mercy and " Sea-Fever ". Bio via Wikipedia 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 01, 2023•11 min
Today’s poem is by James Raymond Daniels (born 1956 in Detroit , Michigan ), an American poet and writer. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the writer Kristin Kovacic. Daniels was on the faculty of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , from 1981-2021, where he was the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English. He taught in the low-residency MFA Program from 2007-2021. He currently teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA Pr...
May 30, 2023•9 min
Today is Memorial Day so in this episode we present three notable poems from among the many memorable poems of the World War I era. Memory eternal to all of the brave men and women who gave up their lives in service of their country. 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 29, 2023•6 min
Today’s poem is by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber ; /ˈkroʊbər lə ˈɡwɪn/ KROH-bər lə GWIN ; [1] October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018), an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction , including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe , and the Earthsea fantasy series. Bio via Wikipedia 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 26, 2023•6 min
Today poem is from Sir John Betjeman CBE ( /ˈbɛtʃəmən/ ; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984), an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture , helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition. He began his career as a journalist and ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate and a much-loved figure on British television. Bio via Wiki...
May 25, 2023•9 min
Today’s poem is by Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906), an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries . . . Dunbar became the first African-American poet to earn national distinction and acceptance. The New York Times called him "a true singer of the people – white or black." [35] Frederick Douglass once referred to Dunbar as, "one of the sweetest songsters his race has produced and a man of whom [he hoped] great things." [36] Bi...
May 24, 2023•6 min
Today’s poem comes from American poet Jane Kenyon, who would have been seventy-five today had she not died in 1995 at the age of forty-seven. 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. 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/subsc...
May 23, 2023•8 min
What better way to bring back The Daily Poem than with a poem by one of my favorite poets, Seamus Heaney. Heaney 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 ...
May 22, 2023•7 min
After a too-long hiatus, T he Daily Poem is coming back with new episodes every week day, starting Monday, May 22. As a small taste, click play to hear a wonderful poem from the great English poet, Cecil Day Lewis, and a little about what to expect from the show’s re-launch. 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 19, 2023•4 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 2...
May 11, 2022•7 min
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic , devotional and children's poems, including " Goblin Market " and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: " In the Bleak Midwinter ", later set by Gustav Holst , Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke , and " Love Came Down at Christmas ", also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti II and fe...
May 10, 2022•6 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 procla...
May 07, 2022•6 min
Caroline Mellor contributes regularly to The Green Parent magazine and her work has also been featured in Rebelle Society, Scribe, Elephant Journal, the Brighton Argus, Permaculture Magazine, Medium and the Viva group. 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 02, 2022•10 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 acc...
Apr 28, 2022•4 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...
Apr 27, 2022•8 min
Louise Elisabeth Glück ( /ɡlɪk/ , GLICK ; [1] [2] born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature , whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". [3] Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize , National Humanities Medal , National Book Award , National Book Critics Circle Award , and Bollingen Prize . From 2003 to 2004, she was Poet Laureate of the United States . Bio via Wik...
Apr 26, 2022•9 min
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890 [1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance . 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 18, 2022•5 min
Today's poem is an Easter-themed poem by an anonymous 10th century poet. 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, 2022•9 min
Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner and Cardinal from Copper Canyon Press 2020 . Daye is a Cave Canem fellow. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and is a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist. Daye most recently was awarded a 2019 Whiti...
Apr 04, 2022•7 min
Wendy Cope OBE (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford . She now lives in Ely , Cambridgeshire , with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon . 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 01, 2022•7 min
Amy Gerstler (born 1956) is an American poet. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship [1] as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award . [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...
Mar 25, 2022•5 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...
Mar 23, 2022•4 min
John Koethe (born December 25, 1945) is an award-winning American poet , essayist and professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee . [1] 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...
Mar 22, 2022•10 min
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer 's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness . Other well-known works are the short-story coll...
Mar 19, 2022•7 min
Howard Nemerov (March 1, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress , from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. [1] For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry , [2] Pulitzer Prize for Poetry , [3] and Bollingen Prize . 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 subscr...
Mar 16, 2022•4 min
Margaret Hasse (born 1950, in South Dakota ), is a poet and writer who has lived and worked in Minnesota since graduating from Stanford University in 1973. Three of her collections of poems have been published: Milk and Tides ( Nodin Press , 2008), In a Sheep's Eye, Darling ( Milkweed Editions , 1988), and Stars Above, Stars Below ( New Rivers Press , 1984.) Milk and Tides was a finalist for a 2009 Minnesota Book Award and won the Midwestern Independent Publishers' Association award in poetry. B...
Mar 14, 2022•5 min
Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet , critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony , and wit. 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...
Mar 09, 2022•7 min
George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (often written AE or A.E. ), was an Irish writer , editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist . He was also a writer on mysticism , and a central figure in the group of devotees of theosophy which met in Dublin for many years. 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 bonu...
Mar 08, 2022•9 min
Paul J. Pastor is a writer and editor living in Oregon. His writings on spirituality and culture blend a love of the Christian Scriptures with wide-ranging interests in literature, ecology, philosophy, and art, and a unique intimacy with the natural world. His work engages timeless ideas that speak boldly to the wounds and possibilities of our age. Paul’s writing is widely recognized for its beauty and depth, and has won numerous awards, including from the Maggie Awards, the Evangelical Press As...
Mar 03, 2022•7 min
