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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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3:34

Maurice Manning's "A Brief Refutation..."

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/20

The full title of today’s poem from Maurice Manning says it all: “A Brief Refutation of the Rumor That I Allowed Willie and Tad to Relieve Themselves in my Up-Turned Hat on a Sunday Morning at the Office While Their Mother was Attending Religious Services” Maurice Manning (born 1966) is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin. Since then he has published four collections of poetry (with

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7:22

James Matthew Wilson's "The Scar of Odysseus"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/19

James Matthew Wilson has published ten books, among them four collections of poems, including The Strangeness of the Good. His poems, essays, and reviews appear regularly in a wide range of magazines and journals. The winner of the 2017 Hiett Prize from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Wilson also serves as Poet-in-Residence of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, poetry editor of Modern Age magazine, and series editor of Colosseum Books, a new imprint that

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8:48

Rainer Maria Rilke's "Love Song"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/16

Today’s poem comes from Rilke and has a fairly straight-forward title–or does it? Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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6:57

Ben Jonson's "Song to Celia"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/15

Today’s poem from Ben Jonson (also know by its first line, “Drink to me only with thine eyes”) has been arranged and set to music numerous times, and become so familiar that it is often recognizable even to those who no longer associate it with Jonson himself. Jonson’s circle of admirers and friends, who called themselves the “Tribe of Ben,” met regularly at the Mermaid Tavern and later at the Devil’s Head. Among his followers were nobles such as the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle, as well as

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7:58

Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/14

Today’s poem from Pablo Neruda is characteristic of the passionate Chilean’s emphatic love poetry, but more chaste and decorous than some of his verses–perfect for a day that somehow manages to celebrate romance and the beheading of an Italian saint simultaneously. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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8:08

John Donne's "The Flea"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/13

Today’s poem comes from a young John Donne. Long before he became a serious clergyman writing Holy Sonnets for God, he was a young rake writing saucy sophistries like this one for the ladies. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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6:24

William Shakespeare's Sonnets 98 & 99

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/12

Today’s poems kick off a week of love poetry with two by the Master. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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8:44

William Cullen Bryant's "To a Waterfowl"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/09

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was a Fireside Poet, journalist, and nature writer with ties to the Hudson River School of art. He wrote poems, essays, and articles that championed the rights of slaves, workers, and immigrants, and he was frequently published by the North American Review. He is the author of several books, including The White-Footed Deer and Other Poems (I. S. Platt, 1844), and The Fountain and Other Poems (Wiley and Putnam, 1842). -bio via Academy of American Poets Get full

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7:20

Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/08

Today’s poem is a rare departure for Elizabeth Bishop who usually avoided a confessional style of poetry–but everybody gets a little introspective on their birthday. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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7:04

Tracy K. Smith's "Solstice"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/07

Tracy K. Smith was born in Massachusetts and raised in northern California. She earned a BA from Harvard University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. From 1997 to 1999 she held a Stegner fellowship at Stanford University. Smith is the author of four books of poetry: The Body's Question (2003), which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African-American poet; Duende (2007), winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Essense Literary Award; Life on Mars (2011),

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12:40

Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/06

Today’s poem is the one you had to read in high school without really understanding it. (Or was that just me?)Among the major Victorian writers, Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) is unique in that his reputation rests equally upon his poetry and his poetry criticism. Only a quarter of his productive life was given to writing poetry, but many of the same values, attitudes, and feelings that are expressed in his poems achieve a fuller or more balanced formulation in his prose. This unity was obscured for

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10:46

Langston Hughes' "Harlem"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/05

Today’s poem is one of the most recognizable and influential American poems of the twentieth century.Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays. He sought to honestly portray the joys and hardships of working-class black lives, avoiding both sentimental

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11:41

Robert Herrick's "Ceremony Upon Candlemas Eve"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/02

Today’s poem from Robert Herrick is not only an ode to the holiday of Candlemas, but a meditation on the everlasting revolution of the seasons.For more on the history of Groundhog Day and Candlemas, check out this conversation between Richard Rohlin and Jonathan Pageau. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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7:33

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Work Without Hope"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/01

If you had to live the same day over and over again, you may as well use the time to memorize some poetry. That’s exactly what Phil Connors does in Groundhog Day. Today’s poem is featured in the film and marks a significant turning point for the once-misanthropic weatherman.Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Active in the wake of the French

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9:33

Robert Browning's "Development"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/01/31

Although the early part of Robert Browning’s creative life was spent in comparative obscurity, he has come to be regarded as one of the most important English poets of the Victorian period. His dramatic monologues and the psycho-historical epic The Ring and the Book (1868-1869), a novel in verse, have established him as a major figure in the history of English poetry. His claim to attention as a children’s writer is more modest, resting as it does almost entirely on one poem, “The Pied Piper of

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8:48

Emily Dickinson's "Fame is a bee."

The Daily Poem ·

2024/01/30

Today’s poem from Emily Dickinson is a masterclass in poetic economy. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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7:20

Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/01/29

Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to be recognized as an accomplished New World Poet. Her volume of poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America ... received considerable favorable attention when it was first published in London in 1650. Eight years after it appeared it was listed by William London in his Catalogue of the Most Vendible Books in England, and George III is reported to have had the volume in his library. Bradstreet's work has endured, and she is still considered to be one of the

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11:56

John Greenleaf Whittier's "Ichabod"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/01/26

Today’s poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, though potentially universal in its application, is ostensibly about Daniel Webster, who alienated abolitionists with his support of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850.Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery

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9:31

Dana Gioia's "Entrance"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/01/25

Today’s poem is Dana Gioia’s interpretive spin on a Rilke poem about (among other things) poetics.Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. Former California Poet Laureate and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia was born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican descent. The first person in his family to attend college, he received a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. from Harvard in Comparative Literature. For fifteen years he worked as a businessman before

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7:55

Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/01/24

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), and also The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was

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