By Ted Kooser
Audio Poem of the Day - Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d”
By Kimiko Hahn
Audio Poem of the Day - midnight
By Toni Giselle Stuart
Read Me a Poem - “One Letter” by Liu Xiaobo
Amanda Holmes reads Liu Xiaobo’s “One Letter,” translated from the Mandarin by Jeffrey Yang. 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 - I Walked in the House
By Catherine Wagner
Audio Poem of the Day - Silent Spread
By S. J. Fowler
Audio Poem of the Day - Massacre Song Foundation
By Trevino L. Brings Plenty
Audio Poem of the Day - And
By Robert Fernandez
Audio Poem of the Day - The Gospel of Mary
By Mary Jo Bang
Audio Poem of the Day - [anyone lived in a pretty how town]
By E.E. Cummings