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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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7:28

Rhina P. Espaillat's "Changeling"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/14

Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. After Espaillat’s great-uncle opposed the regime, her family was exiled to the United States and settled in New York City. She began writing poetry as a young girl—in Spanish and then English—and has published in both languages.Espaillat’s numerous poetry collections include And After All (2019); Her Place in These Designs (2008); Playing at Stillness (2005); Rehearsing Absence (2001), recipient of the

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10:43

Sylvia Plath's "Gold Mouths Cry"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/13

In today’s poem, Plath (who died at 30) contrasts the transience of youth and nature with the seeming permanence of art and artifice. (I even make time for a brief shout-out to a not-so-transitory Golden Mouth.) Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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6:26

from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hiawatha's Wooing"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/12

Today’s poem is a selection from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s American epic, The Song of Hiawatha. The passage is structured beautifully so that two divergent streams of imaginative thought suddenly flow together into a single, tangible reality. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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5:54

Charles Wolfe's "The Burial of Sir John Moore after...

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/11

Today's poem is an enduring memorial for a hastily interred hero. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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4:22

Kenneth Grahame's "A Song of Mr. Toad"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/08

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Scottish by birth, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the

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6:44

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "A Common Inference"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/07

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote fiction and nonfiction works including several collections of poetry and her most famous short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892). Her poems address the issues of women’s suffrage and the injustices of women’s lives. She was also the author of Women and Economics (1898), Concerning Children (1900), The Home: Its Work and Influence (1903), Human Work (1904), and The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture (1911). A prolific writer, she founded, wrote

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9:12

Robert Morgan's "Bellrope"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/06

“The line through the hole in the dark…trembling/with its high connections.”Robert Morgan (born 1944) is an American poet, short story writer, non-fiction author, biographer, and novelist. He studied at North Carolina State University as an engineering and mathematics major, transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an English major, graduating in 1965, and completed an MFA degree at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 1968. He has taught at Cornell University

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8:54

Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then fiddle."

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/05

Today’s poem is about politics (but this, too, shall pass). Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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12:01

Thomas Hardy's "The Shadow on the Stone"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/05

Today’s poem is a reluctant reckoning with the present absence created by grief. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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6:54

Luci Shaw's "Judas, Peter"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/11/01

Luci Shaw was born in 1928 in London, England, and has lived in Canada, Australia and the U.S.A. A graduate of Wheaton College, she became co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada.Shaw has lectured in North America and abroad on topics such as art and spirituality, the Christian imagination, poetry-writing, and journal-writing as an aid to artistic and spiritual growth.A charter member of the

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4:15

Jonathan Swift's "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/31

In today’s poem, while everyone else is dressing up to become something terrible, the acerbic Jonathan Swift gives us a domestic horror story in reverse. Happy reading.Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, essayist, and political pamphleteer Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. He spent much of his early adult life in England before returning to Dublin to serve as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin for the last 30 years of his life. It was this later stage when he would write most of his greatest

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3:07

Kenn Nesbitt's "Halloween Party"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/30

Today’s poem is the stuff real nightmares are made of. Happy reading.Nesbitt’s poetry for children is “irrepressible, unpredictable, and raucously popular,” in the words of former Children’s Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis. Nesbitt’s poems frequently deal with humorous, relatable situations that verge on the madcap. He is the author of numerous books of poetry for children, including Believe It or Not, My Brother Has a Monster (2015), The Biggest Burp Ever (2014), Kiss, Kiss Good Night (2013), The

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4:18

William Shakespeare's "Advice to Laertes" (from...

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/29

Today’s poem is some of the greatest ironic advice ever offered on the stage–do as Polonius says, not as he does, and you’ll be just fine. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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17:11

Bob Hicok's "O My Pa-Pa"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/28

Bob Hicok was born in 1960 in Michigan and worked for many years in the automotive die industry. A published poet long before he earned his MFA, Hicok is the author of several collections of poems, including The Legend of Light, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry in 1995 and named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year; Plus Shipping (1998); Animal Soul (2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Insomnia Diary (2004); This Clumsy Living (2007), which received the

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7:15

J. R. R. Tolkien's "When winter first begins to bite"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/25

Today’s poem commemorates the Council of Elrond, testifies to the love (and fussiness) of hobbits, and even boasts a possible Shakespearean connection. Happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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4:05

Henry Taylor's "Somewhere Along the Way"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/24

Poet and translator Henry Taylor was born in Lincoln, Virginia on June 21, 1942. He earned a BA from the University of Virginia and an MA from Hollins University. Taylor’s many poetry collections include Crooked Run (2006); Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996; The Flying Change (1985), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize; An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards (1975); and The Horse Show at Midnight(1966). He has translated works from Bulgarian, French, Hebrew, Italian, and Russian. His

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7:07

Amy Lowell's "Trades"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/23

Today’s poem is a particularly novel example of an ancient writerly tradition: writing about how hard it is to write. Happy reading.On February 9, 1874, Amy Lowell was born at Sevenels, a ten-acre family estate in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her family was Episcopalian, of old New England stock, and at the top of Boston society. Lowell was the youngest of five children. Her elder brother Abbott Lawrence, a freshman at Harvard at the time of her birth, went on to become president of Harvard College. As

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4:45

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Heaven-Haven"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/22

Today’s poem, subtitled “a nun takes the veil,” is one of Hopkins’ earliest surviving works. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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7:15

Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/21

Though its author remained otherwise undistinguished, today's poem–with all its ecstasy, agony, and irony–has become almost as essential to the American experience as baseball itself. Happy reading!Ernest Lawrence Thayer was born on August 14, 1863, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He graduated with a BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 1885, where he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club and edited the Harvard Lampoon. At Harvard, Thayer met William Randolph Hearst, who would later run the San

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4:37

Billy Collins' "Shoveling Snow With Buddha"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/10/18

Today’s poem is an appreciation of little things. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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