By Emily Skillings
Audio Poem of the Day - Sparks, Nevada
By Cynthia Cruz
Audio Poem of the Day - Older, Younger, Both
By Joyce Sutphen
Audio Poem of the Day - Tin Woman’s Lament
By Yolanda Wisher
Read Me a Poem - “The Day Is Done” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Amanda Holmes reads Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Day Is Done.” 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 Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser
Audio Poem of the Day - How to Draw a Perfect Circle
By Terrance Hayes
Audio Poem of the Day - “No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.”
By Gerard Manley Hopkins (read by Mary Jo Bang)
Audio Poem of the Day - Be More Like Björk
By Camille Guthrie
Audio Poem of the Day - My California
By Lee Herrick