by Amy Gerstler
Audio Poem of the Day - Hymn
Audio Poem of the Day - Togetherness
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Read Me a Poem - “On the Birth of a Son” by Su Tung-Po
Amanda Holmes reads Su Tung-Po’s poem “On the Birth of a Son,” translated by Arthur Waley. 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 - My Mother Contemplating Her Gun
by Nick Flynn
Audio Poem of the Day - The Mauve Notebook
By John Ashbery
Audio Poem of the Day - Some San Francisco Poems: Sections 5-10
By George Oppen
Audio Poem of the Day - An Autopsy of an Era
By Mary Jo Bang
Audio Poem of the Day - Of the Shining Underlife
By Carl Phillips
Audio Poem of the Day - No Swan So Fine
by Marianne Moore (read by Melissa Severin)