Sara Teasdale's "The Writer"
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the ...
The Daily Poem
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Presented by the Close Reads Podcast Network, 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 written, read-aloud by David Kern and an assortment of various contributors to the Close Reads network. Some lite commentary is included and the shorter poems are often read twice, as time permits.
Naomi Shihab Nye's "Fundamentalism"
Naomi Shihab Nye (Arabic: نعومي شهاب ناي; born March 12, 1952) is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian father and an Ameri...
Bryana Joy's "Kabul Airport"
Bryana Joy is a writer, poet, and full-time artist who believes in the subtle power of Story to challenge and change us. In 2018, she launched the Let...
Sir Walter Scott's "Lochinvar"
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. ...
William Carlos Williams' "A Coronal"
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism...
Margaret Cavendish's "A Lady Dressed by Youth"
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and pla...
Katherine Anne Porter's "Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake"
Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. ...
Elinor Wylie's "Atavism"
Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during h...
John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy By...
Seamus Heaney's "The Rain Stick"
Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel ...