The Daily Poem

Joy Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joy Harjo (/ˈhɑːrdʒoʊ/ HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Po...

Christina Rossetti's "Sonnets Are Full of Love"

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Go...

William Blake's "A Poison Tree"

07 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now ...

Caroline Mellor's "We Need to Teach the Children the Old Words"

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline Mellor contributes regularly to The Green Parent magazine and her work has also been featured in Rebelle Society, Scribe, Elephant Journal, t...

Ted Kooser's "Daddy Longlegs"

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Seamus Heaney's "Three-Piece Suit"

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the...

Louise Gluck's "Averno"

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Louise Elisabeth Glück (/ɡlɪk/, GLICK;[1][2] born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature,...

Claude McKay's "Easter Flower"

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890[1] – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in th...

The Dream of the Rood

15 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today's poem is an Easter-themed poem by an anonymous 10th century poet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a publi...

Tyree Daye's "Where She Planted Hydrangeas"

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collectio...

Wendy Cope's "The Orange"

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wendy Cope OBE (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridg...

Amy Gertsler's "In Perpetual Spring"

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Gerstler (born 1956) is an American poet. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship[1] as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.[2]Bio via Wiki...

Billy Collins' "Today"

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.[1][2] He is a ...

John Koethe's "The Late Wisconsin Spring"

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Koethe (born December 25, 1945) is an award-winning American poet, essayist and professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–...

James Joyce's "Song"

19 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic. He contrib...

Howard Nemerov's "Adam and Eve Later in Life"

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howard Nemerov (March 1, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, fr...

Margaret Hasse's "Day after Daylight Savings Time"

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Hasse (born 1950, in South Dakota), is a poet and writer who has lived and worked in Minnesota since graduating from Stanford University...

Marianne Moore's "Poetry"

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted f...

A. E. Russell's "Forgiveness"

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (often written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, edito...

Paul Pastor's "Letter to My Sons"

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Paul J. Pastor is a writer and editor living in Oregon. His writings on spirituality and culture blend a love of the Christian Scriptures with wide-ra...

Louise Erdrich's "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Louise Erdrich (/ˈɜːrdrɪk/ ER-drik;[1] born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954)[2] is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's bo...

Lyuba Yakimchuk's "Prayer"

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lyuba Yakimchuk was born in Pervomaisk, Luhansk oblast, in 1985. She is a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, and journalist. She is the author of several f...

W.H. Auden's "Doggerel for a Senior Citizen"

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wystan Hugh Auden (/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973[1]) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was n...

James Matthew Wilson's "Before the Gates"

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wilson has published six volumes of poetry and more than two hundred poems in various magazines and journals. His published work has been collected ...

W.S. Merwin's "Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise"

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

W.S. Merwin received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and 2009;[2] the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005,[3] an...

Jericho Brown's "The Card Tables"

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jericho Brown (born April 14, 1976) is an American poet and writer. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown has worked as an educator at i...

Two Responsive Poems by John and Lonnie Balaban

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John B. Balaban (born December 2, 1943)[1] is an American poet and translator, an authority on Vietnamese literature.[2]Bio via Wikipedia. Hosted o...

Philip Larkin's "The Mower"

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Arthur Larkin CH CBE FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The ...

W.H. Auden's "A New Year's Greeting"

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wystan Hugh Auden (/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973[1]) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was n...

Emily Bronte's "Spellbound"

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Jane Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-teɪ/;[2] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)[3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known fo...

Robert Herrick's "Upon Julias' Clothes"

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674)[1] was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best know...

Rudyard Kipling's "The Law of the Jungle"

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)[1] was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and ...

Maurice Manning "The Winter of My Discontent'

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Maurice Manning (born 1966) is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was awarded the Yale Younger Poet...

Lucy Shaw's "Mending"

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lucy Shaw has published ten volumes of poetry (several still in print) and numerous non-fiction books, and has edited and collaborated on multiple o...

Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions ...

Maya Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning"

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Maya Angelou (/ˈændʒəloʊ/ (listen) AN-jə-loh;[1][2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, m...

Harmony Holiday's "Microwave Popcorn"

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Born in Waterloo, Iowa, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday is the daughter of Northern Soul singer/songwriter Jimmy Holiday. Her father died when ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Woods in Winter"

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The So...

Li-Young Lee's "Eating Together"

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parent...

Richard Wilbur's "Year's End"

31 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of his generation, ...

Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

U.A. Fanthorpe's "The Sheepdog"

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet, who published as U. A. Fanthorpe. Her poetry comments mai...

Elinor Wylie's "Velvet Shoes"

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous dur...

William Carlos Williams' "The Gift"

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and i...

George Santayana's "Cape Cod"

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (/ˌsæntiˈænə, -ˈɑːnə/;[2] December 16, 1863 –...

From "W.H. Auden's "For the Time Being"

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Wystan Hugh Auden (/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973[1]) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was n...

Mary Oliver's "Preparing the House"

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work...

Nancy Willard's "The Snow Arrives After Long Silence"

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nancy Willard (June 26, 1936 – February 19, 2017)[1] was an American writer: novelist, poet, author and occasional illustrator of children's bo...

Malcolm Guite's "A Sonnet for Nicholas Ferrar"

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ayodeji Malcolm Guite (/ɡaɪt/; born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to Bri...

Edward Thomas' "Bird's Nests"

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. He is considered a war poet, although few of his po...

Jim Harrison's "Solstice Litany"

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing...

William Blake's "The Garden of Love"

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now ...

Jamaal May's "There Are Birds Here"

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jamaal May is an American poet from Detroit.[1][2] May was included in the Best American Poetry anthology from 2014. May lived in Detroit, where ...

Denise Levertov's "A Tree Telling of Orpheus"

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet.[3] She was a recipient of the Lannan...

Ivan Turgenev's "A Dream"

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (English: /tʊərˈɡɛnjɛf, -ˈɡeɪn-/;[1] Russian: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев[note 1], IPA: [ɪ...

Kara Jackson's "The World Is About to End and My Grandparents Are in Love"

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kara Jackson is a singer/songwriter, musician, and writer from Oak Park, Illinois. Jackson served as the third National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019–...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Autumn Idleness"

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (/rəˈzɛti/),[1] was an English poet, ...

Laurence Binyon's "The Burning of the Leaves"

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his paren...

Wendell Berry's "Wild Geese"

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.[1] He is ...

Sara Teasdale's "The Writer"

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and u...

Naomi Shihab Nye's "Fundamentalism"

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Naomi Shihab Nye (Arabic: نعومي شهاب ناي‎; born March 12, 1952) is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. She was born to a Palestinian ...

Bryana Joy's "Kabul Airport"

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Le...

Sir Walter Scott's "Lochinvar"

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and histor...

William Carlos Williams' "A Coronal"

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and i...

Margaret Cavendish's "A Lady Dressed by Youth"

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and ...

Katherine Anne Porter's "Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake"

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activis...

Elinor Wylie's "Atavism"

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous dur...

John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and ...

Seamus Heaney's "The Rain Stick"

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received t...

Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (/ˈɡʌθri/; July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, and one of the most significant figures ...

Alun Lewis' "Today It Has Rained"

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alun Lewis (1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944) was a Welsh poet. He is one of the best-known English-language poets of the Second World War.[1][2]Bio via...

Theodore Roethke's "The Pike"

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ˈrɛtki/ RET-kee;[1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963 ) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accompli...

Billy Collins' "Fishing on the Susquehanna in July"

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.[1][2] He is a ...

Marge Piercy's "Colors Passing Through Us"

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist and writer. Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, w...

Emily Dickinson's "Like Rain it Soundeth"

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as on...

John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and ...

John Haines' "Fourth of July at Santa Ynez"

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Meade Haines (June 29, 1924 – March 2, 2011) was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska. Bio via Wikip...

Mary Oliver's "The Riders"

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work...

Dana Gioia's "California Hills in August"

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Dana Gioia (/ˈdʒɔɪ.ə/; born December 24, 1950) is an American poet, literary critic, literary translator, and essayist.Gioia was born...

T.S. Eliot's "Cape Ann"

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.[2] Conside...

Elisabeth Jennings' "English Wildflowers"

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth (Joan) Jennings CBE (18 July 1926 – 26 October 2001[1]) was an English poet. Regarded as traditionalist rather than an innovator, Jennin...

Amy Lowell's "Bath"

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which promoted a return to classical values. Sh...

Robinson Jeffers' "Carmel Point"

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Much of J...

Adrian Rice's "The Double Crown"

19 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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-I...

Jane Kenyon's "Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer"

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotional...

Thomas Hardy's "Overlooking the River Stour"

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

John McCrae's "The Unconquered Dead"

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World W...

Walt Whitman's "On the Beach at Night Alone"

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Walter Whitman (/ˈhwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the tr...

Derek Walcott's "Sea Grapes"

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him among the foremost Victoria...

Robert Browning's "Love Among the Ruins"

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him among the foremost Victoria...

Joy Harjo's "Once the World Was Perfect"

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joy Harjo (/ˈhɑːrdʒoʊ/ HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Po...

W.B. Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus"

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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-cent...

Natasha Tretheway's "What the Body Can Say"

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Ted Kooser's "Mother"

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eva Saulitis was intitally trained as a marine biologist and has studied the killer whales of Prince William Sound, Kenai Fjords and the Aleutian Isl...

Sharon Olds "The Race"

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 C...

John Keats' "After dark vapors"

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Keats (/kiːts/; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was prominent in the second generation of Romantic poe...

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

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Chase Twichell's "Cloud of Unknowing"

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950)[1] is an American poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. Her most recent po...