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The Daily Poem

An audio anthology of the best poetry ever written

The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and E..E Cummings, The Daily Poem curates a broad and generous audio anthology of the best poetry ever writte
Latest Episode5/10/2021

Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"

Eva Saulitis was intitally trained as a marine biologist andhas 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 to address the natural world. Saulitis’ most recent book publications includeInto Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas(nonfiction),Many Ways to Say It(poetry), andLeavingResurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist(nonfiction).Her essays and poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, includingCrazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Northwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Carnet de Route, Seattle Review,andKalliope.She lives in Homer, Alaska, where she teaches creative writing at Kenai Peninsula College, at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, and in the Low-Residency MFA Program of the University of Alaska Anchorage.This biography was drawn from Saulitis' profile at Orion Magazine.
5/10/2021

Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"

Eva Saulitis was intitally trained as a marine biologist andhas 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 to address the natural world. Saulitis’ most recent book publications includeInto Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas(nonfiction),Many Ways to Say It(poetry), andLeavingResurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist(nonfiction).Her essays and poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, includingCrazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Northwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Carnet de Route, Seattle Review,andKalliope.She lives in Homer, Alaska, where she teaches creative writing at Kenai Peninsula College, at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, and in the Low-Residency MFA Program of the University of Alaska Anchorage.This biography was drawn from Saulitis' profile at Orion Magazine.
5/6/2021

Sharon Olds "The Race"

Sharon Olds(born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980,[1]the 1984National Book Critics Circle Award,[2]and the 2013Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[3]She teaches creative writing atNew York Universityand is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.[4]-Bio via Wikipedia
5/5/2021

John Keats' "After dark vapors"

John Keats(/kiːts/; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an EnglishRomanticpoet. He was prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, withLord ByronandPercy Bysshe Shelley, though his poems were in publication for only four years before he died oftuberculosisat the age of 25.[1]They were not generally well received by critics in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.[2]By the end of the century he had been placed within the canon of English literature and had become the inspiration for thePre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, with a strong influence on many writers; theEncyclopædia Britannicadescribed one ode as "one of the final masterpieces".Jorge Luis Borgescalled his first encounter with Keats' work an experience that he felt all of his life.[3]It had a style "heavily loaded with sensualities", notably in theseries of odes. It was typical of the Romantics to accentuate extreme emotion through emphasis on natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature. Especially acclaimed are "Ode to a Nightingale", "Sleep and Poetry" and the famous sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".-- Bio via Wikipedia.
5/4/2021

Lines from Shakespeare's "Love's Labours Lost"

Today's poem is by the Bard are from the final lines of Love's Labours Lost, one of his lesser-known comedies.
5/3/2021

Chase Twichell's "Cloud of Unknowing"

Chase Twichell(born August 20, 1950)[1]is anAmericanpoet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. Her most recent poetry collection isThings 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 $100,000Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.[3][2]She is the winner of several awards in writing from theNew Jersey State Council on the Arts, theAmerican Academy of Arts and Lettersand The Artists Foundation. Additionally, she has received fellowships from both theGuggenheim Foundationand theNational Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines includingThe New Yorker,Field,Ploughshares,The Georgia Review,The Paris Review,Poetry,The Nation, andThe Yale Review.[4]-bio via Wikipedia
4/27/2021

Edna St Vincent Millay's "Sonnet 3"

Edna St. Vincent Millay(February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an Americanlyrical poetand 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 thePulitzer Prizein 1923, and went on to use verse as a medium for her feminist activism. She also wrote verse-dramas and a highly-praised opera,The King's Henchman. Her novels appeared under the name Nancy Boyd, and she refused lucrative offers to publish them under her own name. - Bio via Wikipedia.
4/27/2021

William Carlos Williams' "the farmer in deep thought"

William Carlos Williams(September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was a Puerto Rican-American[1]poet, writer, and physician closely associated withmodernismandimagism.In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing bothpediatricsand general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, where he served as the hospital's chief of pediatrics from 1924 until his death. The hospital, which is now known asSt. Mary's General Hospital, paid tribute to Williams with a memorial plaque that states "We walk the wards that Williams walked".[2] - Bio via Wikipedia