The Daily Poem
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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...
Edna St Vincent Millay's "Sonnet 3"
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Encouraged to read the classics at h...
William Carlos Williams' "the farmer in deep thought"
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was a Puerto Rican-American[1] poet, writer, and physician closely associated with m...
Terrence Hayes' "We Should Make a Documentary about Spades"
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, Lighthead,...
Tracy K. Smith's "The Good Life"
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 201...
Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad"
20 Apr 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 Hass' "Meditation at Lagunitas"
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Na...
Grace Schulman's "Because"
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grace Schulman (born Grace Jan Waldman, 1935, New York City) is an American poet. She received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Ach...
Charlotte Mew's "I So Liked Spring"
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Laurie Lee's "April Rise"
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Rhina Espaillat's "Things That Go"
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rhina Polonia Espaillat (born January 20, 1932, La vega, Dominican Republic)[1] is a bilingual Dominican-American poet and translator who is aff...
A.E. Housman's "Smooth Between Sea and Land"
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alfred Edward Housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet....
Rosalie Grayer's "Altar Smoke"
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
From "The Dream of the Rood"
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 mo...
The World's Greatest Poem
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A.E. Housman's "A Lent Lilly"
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alfred Edward Housman (/ˈhaʊsmən/; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet....
G.K. Chesterton's "The Donkey"
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,[2] philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic....
Amy Lowell's "Opal"
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which was promoting a return to classical val...
Robert Southey's "The Cataract of Ledore"
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Southey (/ˈsaʊði/ or /ˈsʌði/;[a] 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet laureate ...
e.e. cummings' "in just"
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...