Human Voices Wake Us

Anthology: Poems on Being a Parent

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An episode from 1/31/24: Tonight, as a companion to last episode of poems on being a child, I read a handful of poems about being a parent:

  • “Morning Song,” by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
  • “Child Crying Out,” by Louise Glück (1943-2023)
  • “First Snow” read by Louise Glück (audio from here)
  • “This Be the Verse,” by Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
  • “Lucinda Matlock,” by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
  • “On My First Sonne” (Epigrammes XLV), by Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
  • “The Pomegranate,” by Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
  • “Surprized by joy – impatient as the wind,” by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
  • “Eden Rock,” by Charles Causley (1924-2007)
  • “My Young Mother,” by Jane Cooper (1924-2007)
  • “Waiting,” by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
  • from King Lear, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
  • “Life after Death,” by Ted Hughes (1930-1998)

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