By Mary Ruefle
Audio Poem of the Day - The Power of a Question
by Gabriel Preil (read by Ken Marks)
Audio Poem of the Day - Invocation to Convince a Baby Already Twelve Days Overdue to Come Out
By Jeanne Murray Walker
Audio Poem of the Day - The Way We Were Made
By Marcus Wicker
Audio Poem of the Day - Cinque Terre
By Jon Pineda
Audio Poem of the Day - Noah / Ham: Fathers of the Year
by Douglas Kearney
Audio Poem of the Day - Eros Turannos
by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read Me a Poem - “That Day” by Nikki Giovanni
Amanda Holmes reads Nikki Giovanni’s “That Day.” 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 - Sore Throat
By Katie Peterson
Audio Poem of the Day - this beginning may have always meant this end
By Camille T. Dungy