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The Daily Poem

Goldberry Studios

The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, The Daily Poem curates a broad and generous audio anthology of the best poetry ever written, read-aloud by David Kern and an assortment of various contributors. Some lite commentary is included and the shorter poems are often read twice, as time permits. The Daily Poem is presented by Goldberry Studios. dailypoempod.substack.com

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7:59

Richard Wilbur's "A Wedding Toast"

The Daily Poem ·

2025/01/06

Today’s poem draws together marriage and the blessing of water. 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

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11:33

Philip Appleman's "To the Garbage Collectors in...

The Daily Poem ·

2025/01/03

If you can see “a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,” what can you see in the trashcan at the curb? Apparently quite a bit, if you look closely. Today’s poem, a paean to the unsung heroes of the holidays, can help with that.Also in today’s episode: a look at what’s new for The Daily Poem in 2025. Happy reading!Philip Appleman (1926-2020) served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and in the Merchant Marine after the war. He has degrees from Northwestern University,

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5:56

Robert Service's "The Passing of the Year"

The Daily Poem ·

2025/01/02

Does today’s poem contain the secret to minimizing regret in 2025? Kinda, sorta. Happy reading.In his youth, Robert Service worked in a shipping office and a bank, and briefly studied literature at the University of Glasgow. Inspired by Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson, Service sailed to western Canada in 1894 to become a cowboy in the Yukon Wilderness. He worked on a ranch and as a bank teller in Vancouver Island six years after the Gold Rush, gleaning material that would inform his

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8:17

Helen Hunt Jackson's "New Year's Morning"

The Daily Poem ·

2025/01/01

Happy New Year (and Happy Reading) from The Daily Poem!Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to academic Calvinist parents, poet, author, and Native American rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson (born Helen Maria Fiske) was orphaned as a child and raised by her aunt. Jackson was sent to private schools and formed a lasting childhood friendship with Emily Dickinson. At the age of 21, Jackson married Lieutenant Edward Bissell Hunt and together they had two sons. Jackson began writing poetry only after the

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9:19

T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/31

…I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.Today’s poem seemed an appropriate choice as we endure the death of one year and the pregnant anticipation of another. Happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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8:51

William Butler Yeats' "The Magi"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/30

The repetition of the word “unsatisfied” forms a set of bookends in today’s poem. Inside those bookends: earth, sky, and the riches of this world. Beyond them: “The uncontrollable mystery.” Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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9:52

Cecil Day Lewis' "The Christmas Tree"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/27

“the Christmas Tree is a tree of fable,/A phoenix in evergreen”Cecil Day Lewis tackles the leave-taking of Christmas and the emotional upheaval in can work in the hearts of kids from 1 to 92. Happy reading (and don’t take down that tree yet!)Lewis, (born April 27, 1904, Ballintubbert, County Leix, Ire.—died May 22, 1972, Hadley Wood, Hertfordshire, Eng.) was one of the leading British poets of the 1930s; he then turned from poetry of left-wing political statement to an individual lyricism expressed

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5:40

W. H. Auden's Conclusion to For the Time Being

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/26

“To those who have seen/The Child, however dimly, however incredulously,/The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all.” Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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4:27

W. H. Auden's "Chorus of Angels"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/25

Christ is born! Merry Christmas and happy reading! Today’s poem is a selection from Auden’s superb long poem, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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3:47

J. R. R. Tolkien's "Noel"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/24

J. R. R. Tolkien loved Christmas–we can find ample proof of this in his Letters From Father Christmas, but also in his choosing December 25 as the day the fellowship of the Ring should set out from Rivendell and begin the destruction of evil in Middle Earth. Today’s poem, once lost to history but rediscovered and included in his Collected Poems, is his most explicit tribute to the Nativity. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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9:33

George Herbert's "Love (III)"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/23

Today’s selection may not be traditionally recognized as a holiday poem, but it interprets the Christmas mystery as well or better than many poems written for the season. Happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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4:28

Two Christmas Poems from G. K. Chesterton

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/20

In today’s poems-“The Inn at the End of the World” and “The House of Christmas”–Chesterton imagines Christmas as a cosmic waystation for weary pilgrims. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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4:57

Donald Hall's "Christmas Eve in Whitneyville"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/19

Don’t be fooled by the lack of Dickensian drama: melancholy, materialism, regret, a graveyard–today’s poem is A Christmas Carol for the modern man. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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4:54

James Merrill's "Christmas Tree"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/18

Today’s selection is an ideal poem for Advent–a bittersweet shape poem that expresses the “hopes and fears of all the years.”Poet and critic John Hollander wrote of Merrill that he “was continually reengaging those Proustian themes of the retrieval of lost childhood, the operations of involuntary memory and of an imaginative memory even more mysterious.” Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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5:05

Mary Jo Salter's "Home Movies: A Sort of Ode"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/17

Are home movies the grecian urns of the twentieth century? Today’s poem says, “sort of.”Poet, editor, essayist, playwright, and lyricist Mary Jo Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She grew up in Michigan and Maryland, and earned degrees from Harvard and Cambridge University. A former editor at the Atlantic Monthly, poetry editor at the New Republic, and co-editor of the fourth and fifth editions of the Norton Anthology of Poetry, Salter’s thorough understanding of poetic tradition is clearly

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8:16

John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/16

Today’s poem is, in may ways, the ode of odes. It has inspired volumes upon volumes of poetry and scholarship alike. And yet, it remains nothing more and nothing less than a humble and impassioned conversation with a work of beauty. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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3:06

Malcolm Guite's "Launde Abbey on Saint Lucy's Day"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/13

Today’s poem for St. Lucy’s day is a remembrance of a light “too bright for our infirm delight” dawning in the deepest darkness of the year. The poem is collected in Waiting on the Word: a poem a day for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. You can also hear a vastly superior reading of the poem by the author himself. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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9:18

Christina Rossetti's "A Christmas Carol"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/12

Today’s poem–known to many as the musical setting, “In the Bleak Midwinter”–contemplates unprecedented act of loves in the darkest days of the year. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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6:48

Ezra Pound's "The White Stag"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/11

Ezra Pound had his own complicated relationship with fame, exercising a profound influence upon 20th-century literature but being tried for treason in the U.S. after broadcasting propaganda for the fascists during WWII. Today’s poem is a guarded reflection on the never-ending quest. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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5:29

Emily Dickinson's "In this short Life that only lasts...

The Daily Poem ·

2024/12/10

Today is the birthday of Emily Dickinson, and to mark the occasion we have selected a poem that manages to sum up the entire paradox of the human condition in just two lines. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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