By Fred D'Aguiar
Audio Poem of the Day - “Though I am young, and cannot tell”
By Ben Jonson
Audio Poem of the Day - elegy for kari edwards
By Julian Brolaski
Audio Poem of the Day - In the Month of Cleaning Family Plots
By Sy Hoahwah
Audio Poem of the Day - Relaxing or Voluntarily Having Dumb, Unpleasant Experiences
By Marie Buck
Audio Poem of the Day - We Real Cool
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Read Me a Poem - “Birth of the Foal” by Ferenc Juhasz
Amanda Holmes reads Ferenc Juhasz’s poem “Birth of the Foal,” translated from the Hungarian by David Wevill. 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 - Gone Away Blues
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Book of Non-Writing
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Audio Poem of the Day - On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane
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