The Daily Poem

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...

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 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 Hosted on...

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a publi...

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. 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

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...

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. H...

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 comp...

Today's poem is an Easter-themed poem from Rosalie Grayer. 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

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 C...

Let's kick off April with the world's greatest poems. 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

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 comp...

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] Chest...

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 . 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...

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, no...

Edward Estlin Cummings  (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), often styled as  e e cummings , as he is attributed in many of his published works, [1]  was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century....

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. 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 Morris  (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British  Arts and Crafts Movement . He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British  textile arts  and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he helped win acceptance of...

Ronald Stuart Thomas  (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as  R. S. Thomas , was a  Welsh  poet and  Anglican  priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the  anglicisation  of Wales.  John Betjeman , in his 1955 introduction to  Song at the Year's Turning , the first collection of Thomas's poetry from a major publisher, predicted that Thomas would be remember...

William Wordsworth  (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English  Romantic  poet who, with  Samuel Taylor Coleridge , helped to launch the  Romantic Age  in  English literature  with their joint publication  Lyrical Ballads  (1798). Wordsworth's  magnum opus  is generally considered to be  The Prelude , a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times...

Today's episode features two poems by the great contemporary poet, Rhina Espaillat, both of which were recently published in Plough quarterly. 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

In honor of the Ideas of March (yesterday), today's poem is Brutus' speech from act III, scene II of Julius Caesar , Shakespeare's wonderful play. 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 Vaughn Moody  (July 8, 1869 – October 17, 1910) was an  American   dramatist  and  poet . Moody was author of  The Great Divide , first presented under the title of  The Sabine Woman  at the  Garrick Theatre  in  Chicago  on April 12, 1906. His poetic dramas included  The Masque of Judgment  (1900),  The Fire Bringer  (1904), and  The Death of Eve  (left undone at his death). - Bio via Wik...

John Donne  ( /dʌn/   DUN ; 22 January 1572 [1]  – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a  recusant  family, who later became a  cleric  in the  Church of England . [3]  Under royal patronage, he was made  Dean of St Paul's  Cathedral in  London  (1621–1631). [2]  He is considered the preeminent representative of the  metaphysical poets . His poetical works...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning  (née  Moulton-Barrett ;  /ˈbraʊnɪŋ/ ; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the  Victorian era , popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. - 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...