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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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6:35

Naomi Shihab Nye's "The Traveling Onion"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/03/08

Naomi Shihab Nye was born on March 12, 1952, in St. Louis to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Palestine, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she later received her BA in English and world religions from Trinity University.Nye is the author of numerous books of poems, most recently Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems. Her other books of poetry include Cast Away: Poems for Our Time (Greenwillow Books,

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7:58

Colley Cibber's "The Blind Boy"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/03/07

Today’s poem (from an oft-maligned poet) makes frequent appearances in poetry anthologies for children, but hides a satisfying subtlety.Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style. He wrote 25 plays for his own company at Drury Lane, half of which were adapted from various sources, which led Robert

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6:50

Bertolt Brecht's "A Worker Reads History"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/03/06

Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was an influential playwright and poet. His poetry is collected in Poems 1913-1956 (1997) and Poetry and Prose: Bertolt Brecht (2003). He wrote a wide variety of poetry, including occasional poems, poems he set to music and performed, songs and poems for his plays, personal poems recording anecdotes and thoughts, and political poems. Poet Michael Hofmann commented, “In the course of a mobile, active and engaged life, the poems were the

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6:17

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Road Goes Ever On"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/03/05

Today’s poem is a walking song composed by Bilbo Baggins, reworked and repurposed at several key moments in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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5:46

Dr. Seuss' "Did I Ever Tell You..?"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/03/04

Today’s poem is a piece of uncollected verse from one of the world’s most beloved children’s writers: Dr. Seuss.Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.-bio

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7:25

Richard Wilbur's "The Death of a Toad"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/03/01

Today’s poem comes from one of America’s most beloved and decorated poets, Richard Wilbur. Don’t be put off by the title; no matter the subject, Wilbur’s poetry is always so marvelously companionable–desert island reading if ever there was. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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10:08

Howard Nemerov's "De Anima"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/29

For the day that only comes ‘round once every four years, we have a haunting poem about missed connections–and from a poet with a “Leap Day” birthday, no less.Howard Nemerov was born on February 29, 1920, in New York, New York. Throughout World War II, he served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian unit of the U. S. Army Air Force. He married in 1944, and after the war, having earned the rank of first lieutenant, returned to New York with his wife to complete his first book.Nemerov was first hired to

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8:59

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "Nameless Pain"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/28

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823-1902) was a poet, fiction writer, and essayist born and raised in Mattapoisset, Massachusetts. The daughter of a shipbuilder, Stoddard was educated at Wheaton Female Seminary.She married poet Richard Stoddard in 1851 and together they had three children, two of whom died as infants. The Stoddards’ New York City home was a gathering place for local poets, and Elizabeth began to submit her own poetry, fiction, and social commentary to journals. From 1854 to 1858,

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8:51

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Poet and His Songs"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/27

Happy Birthday to America’s great man of letters, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!Get to know Longfellow better through his own verse, or in the pages of Nicholas Basbanes’ excellent biography, Cross of Snow. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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11:09

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Richard Cory"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/26

Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine on December 22, 1869 (the same year as W. B. Yeats). His family moved to Gardiner, Maine, in 1870, which renamed “Tilbury Town,” became the backdrop for many of Robinson’s poems. Robinson described his childhood as stark and unhappy; he once wrote in a letter to Amy Lowell that he remembered wondering why he had been born at the age of six. After high school, Robinson spent two years studying at Harvard University as a special student and his

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8:59

William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/23

Today’s classic poem from W. B. Yeats doubles as one of the greatest literary justifications for committing poems to memory. Happy reading! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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5:10

Three by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/22

Today’s poems pay tribute to the soulful and spirited Edna St. Vincent Millay, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. They are “First Fig,” “Second Fig,” and “Thursday,” all from her collection, A Few Figs From Thistles.Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on February 22, 1892. In 1912, Millay entered her poem “Renascence” to The Lyric Year’s poetry contest, where she won fourth place and publication in the anthology. This brought her immediate acclaim

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6:42

W. H. Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

The Daily Poem ·

2024/02/21

In today’s poem one great poet pays passionate tribute to another. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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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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