The Daily Poem

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The Daily Poem episodes

February 02 William Stafford's "A Message from the Wanderer"
“That’s the way everything in the world is waiting.” Happy reading.

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4 min
January 30 F. S. Flint's "London, my beautiful"
Today’s poem falls somewhere in the middle of a Venn diagram of haiku and English ode. Happy reading.

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3 min
January 28 Scott Cairns' "Idiot Psalm 12"
Today’s poem is a song of (sometimes) hidden nearness. Happy reading.

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5 min
January 26 Matthew Arnold's "The Buried Life"
Today’s poem is a frank examination of words and their paradoxical power to create and destroy intimacy, bringing forth the deepest self or walling it off–and what is possible when we make the best use of them. Happy reading.

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7 min
January 23 Jane Taylor's "Twinkle, twinkle, little star"
Today’s poem has taken on a life of its own; we return, for a moment, to its humble beginnings. Happy reading.

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3 min
January 21 Dylan Thomas' "Prologue"
Today’s poem, unusual in its structure and rhyme, turned out to be more of an epilogue: Thomas composed it for inclusion in his Collected Poems, no more than a year before his death. Happy reading.

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7 min
January 19 Wendell Berry's "Sabbath IV, 1996"
I may be the only other man who has had some version of the cold-night-existential experience described in today’s poem, but I doubt it. Happy reading.

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3 min
January 17 Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Feast”
Today’s poem is one in which “increase of appetite grows by what it feeds on” (or so she says). Happy reading.

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5 min
January 14 William Wordsworth's "Character of the Happy Warrior"
“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he/That every man in arms should wish to be?” In today’s poem, Wordsworth asks unfamiliar questions. Happy reading.

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6 min
January 13 William Blake's "The Ecchoing Green"
Today’s poem is a snapshot of a lost world. Happy reading.

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5 min

About The Daily Poem

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The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, 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. Some lite commentary is included and the shorter poems are often read twice, as time permits.