By Claudia Rankine
Audio Poem of the Day - Somebody Trying
By Denise Levertov
Audio Poem of the Day - No Sex for Priests
By Heather McHugh
Audio Poem of the Day - Rizal upon Hearing David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”
By Eugene Gloria
Audio Poem of the Day - Barley Field
By Olav H. Hauge
Audio Poem of the Day - Fable
By Tom Sleigh
Audio Poem of the Day - To the Ancient Order of Legs
By W.S. Merwin
Read Me a Poem - “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Amanda Holmes reads Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “The Windhover.” 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 - Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Brenda Ijima)
Audio Poem of the Day - The Icehouse in Summer
By Howard Nemerov