The Daily Poem
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Pablo Neruda's "Ode To The Artichoke"
Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"
Mary Oliver’s “No Matter What”
Czeslaw Milosz’s “Dedication”
Joyce Kilmer’s “The House with Nobody In It”
Bruce Kiskaddon's "When They've Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall"
Curley Fletcher's "The Strawberry Roan"
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ “The Last Vegetable”
Paisley Rekdal's "Pear"
Blaze Koneski's "Peppers"
Rudyard Kipling's "The Lie"
A. F. Moritz's "On Distinction"
John Crowe Ransom's "Piazza Piece
Maurice Manning's "To the People of Sangamo County"
Paul Laurence Dunbar's "In Summer"
Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"
Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"
Lisa Olstein's "Dear One Absent This Long While"
Ron Padgett's "Poem"
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"
Christina Rossetti's "Spring"
Alexander Pope's "To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday"
Randall Jarrell's "Well Water"
R. S. Thomas' "This"
Ogden Nash's "Taboo to Boot"
Robert Burns' "John Barleycorn"
A. R. Ammons' "Poetics"
from Malcolm Guite's "Galahad and the Grail"
Norman Maccaig's "Interruption to a Journey"
James Joyce's "On the Beach at Fontana"
Edward Rowland Sill's "The Fool's Prayer"
Ellis Parker Butler's "The Final Tax"
R. S. Thomas' "The Bright Field"
Jonathan Henderson Brooks' "The Resurrection"
"Pangur Ban"
William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 99"
Nicholas Samaras' "The Second Death of Lazarus"
Today’s poem imagines the long life of Lazarus as he awaits, like Eliot’s magi, “another death.” Happy reading. 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
Sean Johnson's "How many beards gild the lapses of time"
Today’s poem is a hirsute parody of a much better poem. Sorry in advance. Happy reading. 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
Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "One morn I left him in his bed"
In the 19th century, poems about the loss of children became a little genre of their own. Today’s poem is a decidedly uncharacteristic example of the form. 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
Seamus Heaney's "Poem"
Today’s poem answers the question you never thought to ask: what do a poem, a barnyard, and a marriage have in common? Happy reading. 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
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Annunciation to Mary"
In today’s poem, Rilke (trans. J.B. Leishman) imagines the Annunciation from Gabriel’s perspective. Happy reading. 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
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Dandelions"
Today’s poem wonders what it means to recognize and appreciate a gift. Happy reading. 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
Naomi Shihab Nye's "My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop"
Today’s poem contemplates the ways and “why”s of saying nothing, before culminating in a shattering pun on “nothing.” Happy reading. 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
W. H. Auden's "Funeral Blues"
Today’s poem began its life as a bit of black humor, but lives on as a raw and relatable expression of real grief. Happy reading. 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
Thomas Hardy's "During Wind and Rain"
Today’s poem juxtaposes scenes of summer warmth to scenes of torrential bluster with a seamlessness that would make the best film editor jealous. Happy reading. 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
William Carlos Williams' "Love Song"
Today’s poem captures the agonies and ecstacies of thinking about the absent beloved. Happy reading. 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
Rhina P. Espaillat’s “Butchering”
Today’s poem employs an image worthy of Homer to touch the stark reality of a mother’s intuition. Happy reading. 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
Beowulf prepares for battle
Today’s poem is a selection from the Old English, Beowulf, translated by R. M. Liuzza. In these lines, Beowulf prepares for a harrowing showdown with Grendel’s mother, and the cold, clear beauty of the lines almost makes you wish you were there. Happy reading. 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
T. S. Eliot's "Macavity: The Mystery Cat"
Today’s poem answers the question: if cats are the animal world’s “Napoleon of crime,” who is the cat world’s “Napoleon of crime?” Happy reading. 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