Today’s poem is one of the best known English war poems, both challenging popular notions of the glories of warfare and acknowledging the oft-unseen sacrifices of service. Happy reading.
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John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"
22/05/2026 | 4min
“…a word might turn you all the bent ways to love, its mercies practiced, its one day at a time begun and lived and slept on and begun.” Happy reading.
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Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"
20/05/2026 | 4min
Today’s poem is not the one you should read at graduation parties this month. Happy reading.
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Lisa Olstein's "Dear One Absent This Long While"
18/05/2026 | 5min
Today’s poem–from Olstein’s first collection, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (2006)–is a melancholy collection of the little things we’d like to say to someone who isn’t there. Happy reading.
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Ron Padgett's "Poem"
15/05/2026 | 4min
Today’s poem is the experience of having duties in the spring time rolled into the experience of reading every poem ever written. Happy reading.
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The Daily Poem offers one essential poem each weekday morning. From Shakespeare and John Donne to Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, The Daily Poem curates a broad and generous audio anthology of the best poetry ever written, read-aloud by David Kern and an assortment of various contributors. Some lite commentary is included and the shorter poems are often read twice, as time permits.
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