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Donald Hall , in full  Donald Andrew Hall, Jr. , (born September 20, 1928, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.—died June 23, 2018, Wilmot, New Hampshire), American poet, essayist, and critic, whose poetic style moved from studied formalism to greater emphasis on personal expression. - - bio from Brittanica.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd...

T.S. Eliot , in full  Thomas Stearns Eliot , (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis,  Missouri , U.S.—died January 4, 1965,  London , England), American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the  Modernist movement in  poetry  in such works as  The Waste Land  (1922) and  Four Quartets  (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American  culture  from the 1920s...

Yvor Winters , (born Oct. 17, 1900,  Chicago , Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 25, 1968,  Palo Alto , Calif.), was an American poet, critic, and teacher who held that  literature  should be evaluated for its  moral  and  intellectual  content as well as on  aesthetic  grounds. --Bio from Britannica.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to dis...

Claude McKay , (born September 15, 1889, Nairne Castle,  Jamaica , British West Indies—died May 22, 1948,  Chicago ,  Illinois , U.S.), Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose  Home to Harlem  (1928) was the most popular  novel written by an American black to that time. Before going to the U.S. in 1912, he wrote two volumes of Jamaican  dialect  verse,  Songs of Jamaica  and  Constab Ballads  (1912)...

Christina Rossetti , in full  Christina Georgina Rossetti,   pseudonym  Ellen Alleyne , (born Dec. 5, 1830,  London , Eng.—died Dec. 29, 1894, London), one of the most important of English women poets both in range and quality. She excelled in works of fantasy, in poems for children, and in religious  poetry . --Bio from Britannica.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. T...

Today's poem is Billy Collins' "The Names"--a poem written in honor of those who tragically lost their lives on September 11, 2001. 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

Mary Oliver was born on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio. Her honors include an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, a Lannan Literary Award, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Oliver held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguish...

Elinor Wylie ,  née   Elinor Morton Hoyt , (born Sept. 7, 1885,  Somerville , N.J., U.S.—died Dec. 16, 1928,  New York , N.Y.), American poet and novelist whose work, written from an aristocratic and traditionalist point of view, reflected changing American attitudes in the aftermath of  World War I . -- Bio via Britannica.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a...

Luci Shaw was born in 1928 in London, England, and has lived in Canada, Australia and the U.S.A. A 1953 high honors graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, she became co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. Shaw is a frequent retreat facilitator and leads writing workshops in church and universit...

Hilda Doolittle , byname  H.D. , (born September 10, 1886, Bethlehem,  Pennsylvania , U.S.—died September 27, 1961,  Zürich , Switzerland), American poet, known initially as an  Imagist . She was also a translator, novelist-playwright, and self-proclaimed “pagan mystic.” -- Brittanica.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discus...

Eugene Field , (born September 2, 1850, St. Louis,  Missouri , U.S.—died November 4, 1895,  Chicago , Illinois), American poet and journalist, best known, to his disgust, as the “poet of childhood.” -- Brittanica.com 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 dail...

Hayden Carruth was born Aug. 3, 1921 in Waterbury , Conn., U.S. and died Sept. 29, 2008, Munnsville, N.Y. He was American poet and literary critic best known for his jazz-influenced style and for works that explore  mental illness . -- Brittanica.com 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 ac...

Mary Jo Salter is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently  The Surveyors  (2017). She is also a lyricist whose song cycle “Rooms of Light: The Life of Photographs" was composed by Fred Hersch. Her children’s book  The Moon Comes Home  appeared in 1989; her play  Falling Bodies  premiered in 2004. She is also a co-editor of  The Norton Anthology of Poetry  (4th edition, 1996; 5th edition...

Today's poem is Marilyn Chin's "Turtle Soup." 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 Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist." 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 Louise Bogan's "The Alchemist." 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 Robert Herrick's "The Argument of his Book." 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 Donald Justice's "The Evening of the Mind." 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 Percy Shelley's "Mont Blanc." 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 Billy Collins' "Aristotle." 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 Ted Hughes' "The Thought Fox." Happy birthday to Ted Hughes. 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 Lewis Carroll's "A Pig-Tale." 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 Edward Thomas' "Liberty." 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 R. S. Thomas' "I Was Vicar of Large Things." 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 Elizabeth Bishop's "A Summer's Dream." 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