The Daily Poem

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The Daily Poem episodes

June 22 Czeslaw Milosz’s “Dedication”
“You whom I could not save/Listen to me./Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another./I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words./I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.”
Happy reading.

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5 min
June 19 Joyce Kilmer’s “The House with Nobody In It”
Today’s poem, not a cowboy poem per se, nevertheless tells the story of a frontier mentality and the meeting points of civilization and desolation. Happy reading.

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4 min
June 17 Bruce Kiskaddon's "When They've Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall"
Today’s poem is about the memories that come flooding in when the season’s work is done and the cowboy’s body finally relaxes. Happy reading.

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5 min
June 15 Curley Fletcher's "The Strawberry Roan"
Today’s poem, about an unbreakable horse, is a classic example of a unique American genre–the cowboy poem. Happy reading.

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5 min
June 12 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ “The Last Vegetable”
Today’s poem is about loyalty to the toughest crop in town. Happy reading.

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4 min
June 10 Paisley Rekdal's "Pear"
Today’s poem has some strong words for the apple. Happy reading.

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5 min
June 08 Blaze Koneski's "Peppers"
Today’s poem, translated by Kristian Josifoski, makes a pepper into more than a pepper. Happy reading.

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6 min
June 05 Rudyard Kipling's "The Lie"
Today’s poem is all about the correlation between the elaborate architecture of a lie and the pleasure that telling it can give. Maybe an allegory for art? Maybe a playful confession? Maybe a political commentary? Happy reading.

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5 min
June 03 A. F. Moritz's "On Distinction"
Today’s poem is about the strange whys and ways of trying to endure in this world. Happy reading.

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5 min
June 01 John Crowe Ransom's "Piazza Piece
Today’s poem is an open-ended sonnet-versation (sonnet conversation) between youth and experience–with the rarer twist that the dynamic is here presented in the context of a potential romance. Happy reading.

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7 min

About The Daily Poem

From the publisher's feed

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.