The Daily Poem show

The Daily Poem

Summary: The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and E..E Cummings, 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 Tracy K. Smith's "The Good Life" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:35

Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019.[1] She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars[2][3] Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015. - Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:35

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him among the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. His career began well, but shrank for a time. The long poems Pauline (1833) and Paracelsus (1835) were acclaimed, but in 1840 Sordellowas seen as wilfully obscure. His renown took over a decade to return, by which time he had moved from Shelleyan forms to a more personal style. In 1846 Browning married the older poet Elizabeth Barrett and went to live in Italy. By her death in 1861 he had published the collection Men and Women (1855). His Dramatis Personae (1864) and book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book (1868-1869) made him a leading British poet. He continued to write prolifically, but his reputation today rests mainly on his middle period. By his death in 1889, he was seen as a sage and philosopher-poet who had fed into Victorian social and political discourse. Societies for studying his work formed in his lifetime and survived in Britain and the United States into the 20th century. - Bio via Wikipedia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Robert Hass' "Meditation at Lagunitas" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 8:31

Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997.[1] He won the 2007 National Book Award[2] and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize[3] for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005.[4] In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.[5] - Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Grace Schulman's "Because" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:34

Grace Schulman (born Grace Jan Waldman, 1935, New York City) is an American poet. She received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, awarded by the Poetry Society of America. In 2019, she was inducted as member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. - Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Charlotte Mew's "I So Liked Spring" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3:04

Charlotte Mary Mew (15 November 1869 – 24 March 1928) was an English poet whose work spans the eras of Victorian poetry and Modernism. - Bio via Wikipedia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Laurie Lee's "April Rise" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 7:08

Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and A Moment of War (1991). The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935, and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigades.Bio via Wikipedia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Rhina Espaillat's "Things That Go" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:11

Rhina Polonia Espaillat (born January 20, 1932, La vega, Dominican Republic)[1] is a bilingual Dominican-American poet and translator who is affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry. She has published eleven collections of poetry. She is known for writing poetry that captures the beauty of the mundane and the routine.[2] - Bio via Wikipedia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 A.E. Housman's "Smooth Between Sea and Land" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:24

Alfred Edward Housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside.[1] Their simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers both before and after the First World War. Through their song-settings, the poems became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself. - bio via Wikipedia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Rosalie Grayer's "Altar Smoke" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:57

Today's poem is an Easter-themed poem from Rosalie Grayer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 From "The Dream of the Rood" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 9:11

The Dream of the Rood is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry. Like most Old English poetry, it is written in alliterative verse. Rood is from the Old English word rōd 'pole', or more specifically 'crucifix'. Preserved in the 10th-century Vercelli Book, the poem may be as old as the 8th-century Ruthwell Cross, and is considered as one of the oldest works of Old English literature.-From Wikipedia: See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 The World's Greatest Poem | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2:25

Let's kick off April with the world's greatest poems. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 A.E. Housman's "A Lent Lilly" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:50

Alfred Edward Housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside.[1] Their simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers both before and after the First World War. Through their song-settings, the poems became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself.Housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars who ever lived.[2][3] He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and then at the University of Cambridge. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative. - Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 G.K. Chesterton's "The Donkey" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:55

Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,[2] philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".[3]  Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."[4]Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown,[5] and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.[4][6] Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox"Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.[7] - Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Amy Lowell's "Opal" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:24

Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which was promoting a return to classical values. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. - Bio via Wikipedia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Ledore" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:14

Robert Southey (/ˈsaʊði/ or /ˈsʌði/;[a] 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey had begun as a radical, but became steadily more conservative, as he acquired respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics, notably Byron, accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is principally remembered as author of the poem After Blenheim and the original version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. -- Bio from Wikipedia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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