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Michael Dana Gioia  ( /ˈdʒɔɪ.ə/ ; born December 24, 1950) is an  American   poet ,  literary critic , literary translator, and essayist. Gioia was born into a  working class  family of  Mexican  and  Sicilian  descent and grew up attending Roman Catholic  parochial schools  in  Hawthorne  and  Gardena, California . After becoming the first member of his family to attend college, Gioia graduated fr...

Thomas Stearns Eliot   OM  (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. [2]  Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language  Modernist  poetry. -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 oth...

Elizabeth (Joan) Jennings   CBE  (18 July 1926 – 26 October 2001 [1] ) was an English poet. Regarded as traditionalist rather than an innovator, Jennings is known for her lyric poetry and mastery of form. [2]  Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with  Philip Larkin ,  Kingsley Amis  and  Thom Gunn , all members of the group of English poets known as  The Movement . [2]  She al...

Amy Lawrence Lowell  (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the  imagist  school, which promoted a return to classical values. She posthumously won the  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry  in 1926. --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,...

John Robinson Jeffers  (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American  poet , known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers's poetry was written in  narrative  and  epic  form. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the  environmental movement . --Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Th...

Adrian Rice is from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He graduated from the University of Ulster with a BA in English & Politics, and an MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature. He has delivered writing workshops, readings, and lectures throughout Europe and the United States. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Mason’s Tongue , which was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs...

Jane Kenyon  (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995) was an American  poet  and  translator . Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic  Donald Hall  who made her the subject of many of his poems. Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

Thomas Hardy   OM  (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A  Victorian realist  in the tradition of  George Eliot , he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by  Romanticism , including the poetry of  William Wordsworth . [1]  He was highly critical of much in  Victorian  society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those f...

Lieutenant-Colonel   John McCrae  (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a  Canadian  poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during  World War I , and a surgeon during the  Second Battle of Ypres , in  Belgium . He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem " In Flanders Fields ". McCrae died of  pneumonia  near the end of the war. Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Walter Whitman  ( /ˈhwɪtmən/ ; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A  humanist , he was a part of the transition between  transcendentalism  and  realism , incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of  free verse . [1]   Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

Sir Derek Alton Walcott ,  KCSL ,  OBE ,  OCC  (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a  Saint Lucian  poet and playwright. He received the 1992  Nobel Prize in Literature . [1]  He was the  University of Alberta 's first distinguished scholar in residence, where he taught undergraduate and graduate writing courses. He also served as Professor of Poetry at the  University of Essex  from 2010 to 201...

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  Paracelsu...

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  Paracelsu...

Joy Harjo  ( /ˈhɑːrdʒoʊ/   HAR-joh ; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent  United States Poet Laureate , the first  Native American  to hold that honor. She is also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to serve three terms. Harjo is a member of the  Muscogee Nation  (Este Mvskokvlke) and belongs to  Oce Vpofv  (Hickory Ground)....

William Butler Yeats [a]  (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an  Irish poet , dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of  20th-century literature . A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the  Abbey Theatre , and in his later years served two terms as a  Senator  of the  Irish Free State . He was a driving force behind the  Irish Literary Revival  along w...

Natasha Trethewey  (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed  United States Poet Laureate  in 2012 and again in 2013. [1]  She won the 2007  Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection  Native Guard , [2]  and she is a former  Poet Laureate of Mississippi . [3] Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd l...

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...

Eva Saulitis was intitally trained as a marine biologist and has studied the killer whales of Prince William Sound, Kenai Fjords and the Aleutian Islands and is the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications. Dissatisfied with the objective language and rigid methodology of science, she later turned to creative writing – poetry and the essay – to develop another language with which t...

Sharon Olds  (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, [1]  the 1984  National Book Critics Circle Award , [2]  and the 2013  Pulitzer Prize in Poetry . [3]  She teaches creative writing at  New York University  and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU. [4] -Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

John Keats  ( /kiːts/ ; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English  Romantic  poet. He was prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with  Lord Byron  and  Percy Bysshe Shelley , though his poems were in publication for only four years before he died of  tuberculosis  at the age of 25. [1]  They were not generally well received by critics in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapi...

Today's poem is by the Bard are from the final lines of Love's Labours Lost, one of his lesser-known comedies. 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

Chase Twichell  (born August 20, 1950) [1]  is an  American  poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection is  Things as It Is  ( Copper Canyon Press , 2018).  Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been  [2]  ( Copper Canyon Press , 2010) earned her Claremont Graduate University's prestigious $100,000  Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award . [3] [2]...

Edna St. Vincent Millay  (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American  lyrical poet  and playwright.  Encouraged to read the classics at home, she was too rebellious to make a success of formal education, but she won poetry prizes from an early age, including the  Pulitzer Prize  in 1923, and went on to use verse as a medium for her feminist activism. She also wrote verse-dramas and a hi...

William Carlos Williams  (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was a Puerto Rican-American [1]  poet, writer, and physician closely associated with  modernism  and  imagism . In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both  pediatrics  and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, where he served as the hospital's chief of pediatrics fr...

Terrance Hayes  (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection,  Lighthead , won the  National Book Award for Poetry  in 2010. [1]  In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur fellowships awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work. [2] - Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on A...