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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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7:45

John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/22

Today’s poem is a classic staple with Literature teachers for its expressive metaphors; it is a classic staple with me because it’s such a cracking-good poem. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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7:25

Langston Hughes' "Theme For English B"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/21

Today’s poem captures one of the universal challenges of education: recognizing the distinctions and distances between all human souls, and then bridging them without erasing them. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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6:13

Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/20

As the school year begins, today’s poem goes out to all of those everyday saints performing the unseen and unsung acts of love that make life possible for rest of us!Born Asa Bundy Sheffey on August 4, 1913, Robert Hayden was raised in the Detroit neighborhood Paradise Valley. He had an emotionally tumultuous childhood and lived, at times, with his parents and with a foster family. In 1932, he graduated from high school and, with the help of a scholarship, attended Detroit City College (later, Wayne

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6:04

Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/20

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, sometimes a portrait of your last wife who died under suspicious circumstances is as good as a confession. Happy(?) reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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2:14

Even More Limericks

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/20

Hopefully five days of limericks has made this week a little lighter and a little brighter. See you next week for more of our regularly programming. Till then, happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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2:16

More Limericks

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/15

Today’s limericks are all about unexpected consequences. Happy reading.Children’s poet and educator Constance Levy earned degrees at Washington University and currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Known for its careful attention to external and internal rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and assonance, Levy’s work frequently takes encounters with the natural world as its subject. By drawing on her own childhood encounters, Levy re-experiences the world through verse in the fresh and exuberant ways that

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2:36

Beard Limericks

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/14

Things are getting hairy. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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1:44

Two "Practical" Limericks

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/13

While limericks can be plenty nonsensical, today’s are downright sensible–especially that of Leigh Mercer, famous for his mathematical wordplay and best known for creating the enterprising palindrome, “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!". Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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4:48

Edward Lear's "There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/12

It’s another weekly gimmerick here on the Daily Poem. Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys (which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his

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11:56

Nazim Hikmet's "On Living"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/09

Nâzim Hikmet was born on January 15, 1902, in Salonika, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloníki, Greece), where his father served in the Foreign Service. He was exposed to poetry at an early age through his artist mother and poet grandfather, and had his first poems published when he was seventeen.Raised in Istanbul, Hikmet left Allied-occupied Turkey after the First World War and ended up in Moscow, where he attended university and met writers and artists from all over the world. After the Turkish

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5:46

Billy Collins' "Forgetfulness"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/08

Maybe you remember the experiences recounted in today’s poem—maybe you don’t. Happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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5:20

T. S. Eliot's "Old Deuteronomy"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/07

T. S. Eliot is remembered as a great poet, but he is surpassingly underrated as a namer of cats. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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9:27

Robert Penn Warren's "Bearded Oaks"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/06

Warren (1905-1989) was born in Kentucky and educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, Berkeley. Though perhaps best known for his 1946 novel All the King’s Men, he was the author of over a dozen books of poetry in addition to his prose work. He is the only writer to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction (in 1947) and poetry (in 1958 and 1979). Warren’s other honors include a Rhodes Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a MacArthur

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5:07

Bruce Lansky's "Confession"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/05

Bruce Lansky is an internationally known poet and anthologist. He has a passion for getting children excited about reading and writing poetry. Lansky’s poetry books—including A Bad Case of the Giggles (2013), Peter, Peter, Pizza-Eater (2006), Mary Had a Little Jam (2004), If Kids Ruled the School (2004), and Rolling in the Aisles (2004)—are among America’s best-selling children’s poetry books. He is also the editor of the middle-grade fiction series Girls to the Rescue and Newfangled Fairy Tales

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2:59

Two by Ogden Nash

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/02

Today’s poems from Ogden Nash, “The Ant” and “The Ostrich,” are the perfect marriage of wit and attention. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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6:14

Oliver Herford's "The Platypus"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/08/01

Oliver Herford (2 December 1860 – 5 July 1935), regarded as “the American Oscar Wilde,” was an Anglo-American writer, artist, and illustrator known for his pithy bon mots and skewed sense of humor. His obituary in The New York Times nicely sums up his unique brilliance:"His wit…was too original at first to go down with the very delectable highly respectable magazine editors of the Nineties. It was odd, unexpected, his own brand. It takes genius to write the best nonsense, which is often far more

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10:33

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/07/31

Today’s poem begins with humble beasts but wings its way to the loftiest mysteries of existence. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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3:24

Margaret Wise Brown's "Wild Black Crows"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/07/30

Margaret Wise Brown (May 23, 1910 – November 13, 1952) was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942), both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called "the laureate of the nursery" for her achievements.Brown was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the middle child of three children of Maude Margaret and Robert Bruce Brown. She was the granddaughter of politician Benjamin Gratz Brown. Her parents had an unhappy marriage. She

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5:27

Katherine Craster's "The Centipede's Dilemma"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/07/29

Today’s poem, written in 1871, actually gave the name to the since-codified psychological phenomenon known as the “centipede effect” or “centipede syndrome.” Psychologist George Humphrey (for whom the condition is alternatively named “Humphrey’s Law”) said of the poem, "This is a most psychological rhyme. It contains a profound truth which is illustrated daily in the lives of all of us." Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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7:33

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Morning, Midday, and Evening...

The Daily Poem ·

2024/07/26

G. K. Chesterton wrote: “Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.” Perhaps Hopkins was anticipating that sentiment in today’s poem. Happy reading. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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