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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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5:41

William Matthews' "On a Diet"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/24

William Procter Matthews III (November 11, 1942 – November 12, 1997) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He earned a BA from Yale and MFA from the University of North Carolina. The author of eleven books of poetry, Matthews earned a reputation as a master of well-turned phrases, wise sayings, and rich metaphors. Much of Matthews’s poetry explores the themes of life cycles, the passage of time, and the nature of human consciousness. His collection Time & Money (1996) won the National Book Critics Circle

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3:44

Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/23

Happy Thanksgiving from The Daily Poem! Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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4:48

Two Poems About Butter

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/22

Today we pay tribute, with poems by Andrea Cohen and Elizabeth Alexander, to the indispensable golden wonder. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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7:25

W. S. Gilbert's "National Anthem"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/21

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. The popularity of these works was supported for over a century by year-round performances of them, in Britain and

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6:55

Allen Tate's "Edges"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/20

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979) was a poet, critic, biographer, and novelist. Born and raised in Kentucky, he earned his BA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the only undergraduate to be admitted to the Fugitives, an informal group of Southern intellectuals that included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore, and Robert Penn Warren. Tate is now remembered for his association with the Fugitives and Southern Agrarians, writers who critiqued modern

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4:53

Ted Kooser's "Selecting a Reader"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/17

In today’s poem Ted Kooser describes his ideal reader. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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5:21

Walt Whitman to His Reader

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/16

In today’s poems, Walt Whitman welcomes the reader. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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6:54

Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/15

In today’s poem, Marianne Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) gets candid about poetry itself.One of American literature’s foremost poets, Marianne Moore’s poetry is characterized by linguistic precision, keen and probing descriptions, and acute observations of people, places, animals, and art. Her poems often reflect her preoccupation with the relationships between the common and the uncommon, advocate discipline in both art and life, and espouse restraint, modesty, and humor. She

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7:30

Billy Collins' "Dear Reader"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/15

Today’s poem is Billy Collins’ take on the time-honored poetic trope: the address to the reader. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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4:10

Robert Louis Stevenson's "To Any Reader"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/13

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed

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8:46

John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/10

The English writer and Anglican cleric John Donne is considered now to be the preeminent metaphysical poet of his time. He was born in 1572 to Roman Catholic parents, when practicing that religion was illegal in England. His work is distinguished by its emotional and sonic intensity and its capacity to plumb the paradoxes of faith, human and divine love, and the possibility of salvation. Donne often employs conceits, or extended metaphors, to yoke together “heterogenous ideas,” in the words of

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7:12

Barbara Ras' "Margin of Error"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/09

Barbara Ras was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and has lived in Costa Rica, Colombia, California, and Texas. She is the author of The Last Skin (2010), winner of the best poetry award from the Texas Institute of Letters; One Hidden Stuff (2006); and Bite Every Sorrow (1998), which was selected by C.K. Williams for the Walt Whitman Award. Of Bite Every Sorrow, C.K. Williams wrote, “the book is a demonstration of what might be called a morality of inclusiveness, a Whitmanesque commitment to the

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6:33

Malcolm Guite's "Michaelmas"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/08

Ayodeji Malcolm Guite (/ɡaɪt/; born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents, Guite earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield, and British poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was a Bye-Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge,

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10:17

Ogden Nash's Verses for The Carnival of the Animals

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/07

During his lifetime, Ogden Nash (born August 19, 1902; died May 19, 1971) was the most widely known, appreciated, and imitated American creator of light verse, a reputation that has continued after his death. Few writers of light or serious verse can claim the same extensive dissemination of their poems that Nash’s works enjoy, both with and without citation of the author. Certain Nash lines, such as “If called by a panther, / Don’t anther” and “Candy / Is dandy, / But liquor / Is quicker” have

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10:25

Two for Guy Fawkes Day

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/07

Remember, Remember – November 5 was Guy Fawkes Day, an occasion full of complicated remembrances. We mark the day with a traditional English lyric and a November meditation from Malcolm Guite. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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7:19

Robert B. Shaw's "Chronometrics"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/03

We will turn the clocks back this weekend–in fact, many clocks will turn themselves back–and there is no better occasion to meditate with Robert B. Shaw on the ways we keep time and are kept by it. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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10:26

Wallace Stevens' "Of the surface of things"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/02

Stevens moved to Connecticut in 1916, having found employment at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., where he became vice president in 1934. He had also begun to establish an identity for himself outside the worlds of law and business. His first book of poems, Harmonium (Alfred A. Knopf), published in 1923, exhibited the influences of both the English Romantics and the French Symbolists, and demonstrated a wholly original style and sensibility: exotic, whimsical, and infused with the light and

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10:07

Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/02

Billy Collins spent his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate launching the Poetry 180 initiative to increase American high school students’ exposure to poetry. In today’s poem he remembers what it was like to be young (and not so young). Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

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Robert B. Shaw's "Jack O'Lantern"

The Daily Poem ·

2023/11/01

Poet and critic Robert B. Shaw earned a BA from Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Lowell, and a PhD from Yale University. Influenced by Elizabeth Bishop and Philip Larkin, Shaw’s wry and plainspoken formal verse is often grounded in, or sprung from, the debris of daily life. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Solving For X (2002), which won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize; Below the Surface (1999); and The Wonder of Seeing Double (1988). His criticism appears

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10:41

E.E. Cummings' "i thank You God for most this amazing...

The Daily Poem ·

2023/10/30

Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended the Cambridge Latin High School, where he studied Latin and Greek. Cummings earned both his BA and MA from Harvard, and his earliest poems were published in Eight Harvard Poets (1917). As one of the most innovative poets of his time, Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A typical Cummings poem is spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically placed on the

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