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Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist"
Today’s poem is a cautionary tale about achieving popular successes.
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Sean Johnson
2:58
Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Tomato"
Today’s poem requires a warning: don’t listen unless you have some good, fresh tomatoes close at hand.
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Sean Johnson
1
3:33
William Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned"
Today’s poem is an invitation to an encounter with the Real.
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Sean Johnson
1
5:49
Vachel Lindsay's "What the Young Rhymer Said"
Today’s poem ponders the unlikely similarities between poets and werewolves.
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Sean Johnson
1
3:51
Vachel Lindsay's "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
Today’s poem is neither the first nor last to mythologize America’s sixteenth president.
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Sean Johnson
2
5:04
Roger Woddis' "Ethics for Everyman"
Today’s poem–from British humorist Roger Woddis–is a witty-yet-withering sendup of double-morality.
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Sean Johnson
2:20
Czeslaw Milosz's "The Sun"
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
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Sean Johnson
1
5:13
"Old English Riddle no. 26" (trans. Roy M. Liuzza)
Today’s poem comes from the largest surviving trove of Anglo Saxon poetry–the Exeter Book.
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Sean Johnson
1
3:12
Stephen Vincent Benét's "John Brown's Body"
Stephen Vincent Benét was born July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a military family.
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Sean Johnson
6:36
Louise Imogen Guiney's "John Brown: A Paradox"
Louise Imogen Guiney is known for her lyrical, Old English-style poems that often recall the literary conventions of seventeenth-century English poetry.
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Sean Johnson
1
4:19
Robert Lowell's "July in Washington"
Happy 4th of July and happy reading!
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Sean Johnson
2
2:34
Juliana Horatia Ewing's "A Friend in the Garden"
Today’s poem—part nature study, part riddle–takes us back to the garden with Juliana Ewing.
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Sean Johnson
2:01
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