• 6 minutes 14 seconds
    Maurice Manning's "To the People of Sangamo County"

    “The effort to be/ accomplished, without experience,/ is something to pity”

    Happy reading.



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    29 May 2026, 12:43 pm
  • 3 minutes 13 seconds
    Paul Laurence Dunbar's "In Summer"

    There are few joys as pure as singing in the summer time. Happy reading.



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    27 May 2026, 3:53 pm
  • 6 minutes 39 seconds
    Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"

    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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    25 May 2026, 4:46 pm
  • 4 minutes 20 seconds
    John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"

    “…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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    22 May 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 4 minutes 17 seconds
    Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"

    Today’s poem is not the one you should read at graduation parties this month. Happy reading.



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    20 May 2026, 4:11 pm
  • 5 minutes 59 seconds
    Lisa Olstein's "Dear One Absent This Long While"

    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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    18 May 2026, 4:03 pm
  • 4 minutes 3 seconds
    Ron Padgett's "Poem"

    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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    15 May 2026, 8:09 pm
  • 3 minutes 33 seconds
    Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"

    Today’s poem is for the Maggies, the Margarets, and for anyone who gets moody in the springtime and can’t explain why. Happy reading.



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    13 May 2026, 4:37 pm
  • 3 minutes 10 seconds
    Christina Rossetti's "Spring"

    “There is no time like Spring that passes by,/Now newly born, and now/Hastening to die.” Happy reading.



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    11 May 2026, 5:40 pm
  • 3 minutes 1 second
    Alexander Pope's "To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday"

    Today’s poem argues you don’t have to like birthdays to have a happy one. Happy reading.



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    8 May 2026, 10:32 pm
  • 4 minutes 34 seconds
    Randall Jarrell's "Well Water"

    Today is the birthday of poet Randall Jarrell, and today’s poem does what birthdays themselves can sometimes do: remind us of the simple glories of every-day existence. Happy reading.



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    6 May 2026, 6:06 pm
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