By Brenda Hillman
Audio Poem of the Day - Their Bodies
By David Wagoner
Audio Poem of the Day - Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine
By Karen An-Hwei Lee
Audio Poem of the Day - Like Judith Slaying Holofernes
By Paul Tran
Audio Poem of the Day - Fugue
by Peter Pereira
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 - The Editor’s Ex
By Caitlin Doyle
Audio Poem of the Day - Bay Leaves
By Nikki Giovanni
Read Me a Poem - “Seth Compton” by Edgar Lee Masters
Amanda Holmes reads Edgar Lee Masters’s poem “Seth Compton.” 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 - Claiming Language, Claiming Art V
By Haki R Madhubuti