Stay ConnectedThe 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.
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Today’s poem, translated from the Irish by Seamus Heaney, delivers precisely what the title promises. Happy reading.
Today’s poem praises September and mystifies it with a coy turn in the final stanza. Enjoy the last day of this finest of months. Happy reading.
Today’s poem is a lament over a caged beauty. Happy reading.
Today’s poem is a comic self-portrait in verse from a poet who spent years working as a painter. Happy reading.
In today’s poem, death is a country beyond the sea. Happy reading.
Today’s poem gives us a poet making sense of his restlessness and finding in it the mechanism that draws him upward to God. Happy reading.
In today’s poem, the poet discovers unexpected value in his writing. Happy reading.
Today we are remembering Annie Dillard. Her poem offers not only advice for living, but an approach to understanding a life in retrospect. Happy reading.
Today’s poem heightened the form it’s named for by adding patterned rhyme. Even with the added complexity, this sometimes-rigid form strikes the ear as verse that is smooth and unassuming. Happy reading.
Today’s poem, from Cairns’ new Against Certainty, ponders the value of intravenous poetry. Happy reading.
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