By Atsuro Riley
Audio Poem of the Day - Poet as Gambler
By Rosemary Tonks
Audio Poem of the Day - Baby Song of the Four Winds
By Carl Sandburg
Audio Poem of the Day - Myths of the Disappearance
by Monica Ferrell
Audio Poem of the Day - prayer is better than sleep
By Momina Mela
Audio Poem of the Day - from Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: “I don’t usually talk to strangers…”
By Claudia Rankine
Read Me a Poem - “In Country Sleep” by Dylan Thomas
Amanda Holmes reads Dylan Thomas’s poem “In Country Sleep.” 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 - Little Exercise
By Elizabeth Bishop
Audio Poem of the Day - A Little Closer to the Edge
By Ocean Vuong
Audio Poem of the Day - Reading: An Elegy
By Jeanne Larsen