The Daily Poem

Caroline Mellor contributes regularly to The Green Parent magazine and her work has also been featured in Rebelle Society, Scribe, Elephant Journal, the Brighton Argus, Permaculture Magazine, Medium and the Viva group. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit da...

Theodore J. Kooser  (born 25 April 1939) [1]  is an American  poet . Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2005. He served as  Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress  from 2004 to 2006. [2] Kooser was one of the first poets laureate selected from the Great Plains, [3]  and is known for his conversational style of poetry. [4] Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Seamus Justin Heaney   MRIA  ( /ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/ ; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995  Nobel Prize in Literature . [1] [2]  Among his best-known works is  Death of a Naturalist  (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. Ame...

Louise Elisabeth Glück  ( /ɡlɪk/ ,  GLICK ; [1] [2]  born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020  Nobel Prize in Literature , whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". [3]  Her other awards include the  Pulitzer Prize ,  National Humanities Medal ,  National Book Award ,  National Book Critics Cir...

Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay   OJ  (September 15, 1890 [1]  – May 22, 1948) was a  Jamaican-American  writer and poet. He was a central figure in the  Harlem Renaissance . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Today's poem is an Easter-themed poem by an anonymous 10th century poet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections  River Hymns  2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize  winner and  Cardinal from Copper Canyon Press 2020 .  Daye is a Cave Canem fellow. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Resi...

Wendy Cope   OBE  (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at  St Hilda's College, Oxford . She now lives in  Ely ,  Cambridgeshire , with her husband, the poet  Lachlan Mackinnon . Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,...

Amy Gerstler  (born 1956) is an American poet. She won a  Guggenheim Fellowship [1]  as well as the  National Book Critics Circle Award . [2] Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

William James Collins  (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as  Poet Laureate of the United States  from 2001 to 2003. [1] [2]  He is a Distinguished Professor at  Lehman College  of the  City University of New York  (retired, 2016). Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the  New York Public Library  (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. In 20...

John Koethe  (born December 25, 1945) is an award-winning  American   poet ,  essayist  and  professor  of  philosophy  at the  University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee . [1] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce  (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the  modernist   avant-garde  movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel  Ulysses  (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of  Homer 's  Odyssey  are paralleled in a varie...

Howard Nemerov  (March 1, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice  Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress , from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. [1]  For  The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov  (1977), he won the  National Book Award for Poetry , [2]   Pulitzer Prize for Poetry , [3]  and  Bollingen Prize . Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Margaret Hasse  (born 1950, in  South Dakota ), is a poet and writer who has lived and worked in  Minnesota  since graduating from  Stanford University  in 1973. Three of her collections of poems have been published:  Milk and Tides  ( Nodin Press , 2008),  In a Sheep's Eye, Darling  ( Milkweed Editions , 1988), and  Stars Above, Stars Below  ( New Rivers Press , 1984.) Milk and Tides was a finali...

Marianne Craig Moore  (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American  modernist   poet , critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction,  irony , and wit. Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vi...

George William Russell  (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym  Æ  (often written  AE  or  A.E. ), was an  Irish writer , editor, critic, poet, painter and  Irish nationalist . He was also a writer on  mysticism , and a central figure in the group of devotees of  theosophy  which met in Dublin for many years. Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

Paul J. Pastor is a writer and editor living in Oregon. His writings on spirituality and culture blend a love of the Christian Scriptures with wide-ranging interests in literature, ecology, philosophy, and art, and a unique intimacy with the natural world. His work engages timeless ideas that speak boldly to the wounds and possibilities of our age. Paul’s writing is widely recognized for its beaut...

Louise Erdrich ( /ˈɜːrdrɪk/   ER-drik ; [1]  born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) [2]  is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the  Native American Renaissance . She has written 28 books in all, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry,...

Lyuba Yakimchuk was born in Pervomaisk, Luhansk oblast, in 1985. She is a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, and journalist. She is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including  Like FASHION  and  Apricots of Donbas , and the film script for  The Building of the Word . Yakimchuk’s awards include the International Slavic Poetic Award and the international “Coronation of the Word” lite...

Wystan Hugh Auden  ( /ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/ ; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 [1] ) was a  British-American   poet . Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with  politics ,  morals ,  love , and  religion , and its variety in  tone ,  form , and  content . Some of his best known poems are about love, such as " Funeral Blues "; on political and soc...

Wilson has published six volumes of poetry  and more than two hundred poems in various magazines and journals. His published work has been collected in  Some Permanent Things  Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Wiseblood, 2018) and  The Hanging God  (Angelico, 2018),  The River of the Immaculate Conception ​ (Wiseblood, 2019), and  The Strangeness of the Good  (Angelico, 2020).​ Hosted on Acast...

W.S. Merwin received many honors, including the  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry  in 1971 and 2009; [2]  the  National Book Award for Poetry  in 2005, [3]  and the Tanning Prize—one of the highest honors bestowed by the  Academy of American Poets —as well as the Golden Wreath of the  Struga Poetry Evenings . In 2010, the  Library of Congress  named him the 17th  United States Poet Laureate . [4] [5] Bio...

Jericho Brown  (born April 14, 1976) is an American  poet  and writer. Born and raised in  Shreveport, Louisiana , Brown has worked as an educator at institutions such as  University of Houston ,  San Diego State University , and  Emory University . His poems have been published in  The Nation ,  New England Review ,  The New Republic ,  Oxford American , and  The New Yorker , among others. He rel...

John B. Balaban  (born December 2, 1943) [1]  is an American poet and translator, an authority on  Vietnamese literature . [2] Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Philip Arthur Larkin   CH   CBE   FRSL  (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry,  The North Ship , was published in 1945, followed by two novels,  Jill  (1946) and  A Girl in Winter  (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems,  The Less Deceived , followed by  The Whitsun Weddings...