Category: Poems

by Jorie Graham

By Geoffrey Brock

By Fiona Sampson

By Danez Smith

by Gwendolyn Brooks (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)

By Barbara Guest

by Mark Jarman

by Phillip B. Williams

Amanda Holmes reads Archibald MacLeish’s poem, “You, Andrew Marvell.” 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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By Carolyn Forche