Category: Poems

By Charles Wright

Amanda Holmes reads Pablo Neruda’s poem, “Tonight I Can Write (the Saddest Lines),” translated by W. S. Merwin. 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 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