By William Shakespeare
Audio Poem of the Day - Sympathetic Magpies
By William J. Harris
Read Me a Poem - “Waiting for Icarus” by Muriel Rukeyser
Amanda Holmes reads Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Waiting for Icarus.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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Audio Poem of the Day - A Worldly Country
by John Ashbery
Audio Poem of the Day - After Someone’s Death
By Tomas Tranströmer
Tr. by Patty Crane
Audio Poem of the Day - The Ripples Are Ongoing Acts
By Adam Wolfond
Audio Poem of the Day - “Fever your sex is a crab”
By Joyce Mansour
Tr. by Emilie Moorhouse
Audio Poem of the Day - Utang Na Loob
By Michelle Peñaloza
Audio Poem of the Day - The Dream of a Fire Engine
By Kimiko Hahn
Audio Poem of the Day - Advice to the Able-Bodied Poet Entering the Disability Poetics Workshop
By Liv Mammone