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Poetry for the peaches. I try to adhere to a M/W/F posting schedule. Nearly all episodes under 5 minutes. Sometimes Friday episodes have longer poems. All copyrights belong to respective artists and poets. Citations in podcast notes. If you have poetry requests or other urges for communion, please write to emilyreadspoems@protonmail.com

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    • May 23, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
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    The graduate leaving college

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2024 0:56


    Recited while waiting in Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School waiting for someone to graduate after school-specific ceremonies have gone awry due to torrential downpour ...

    Three poems (Czesław Miłosz, Robert Pinsky)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023 9:31


    Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Adam Zagajewski: Poetry and Empire https://www.bu.edu/european/files/2014/12/Chapter1_Layout-1.pdf https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz https://poets.org/poet/robert-pinsky Pinsky, R. (2012) Selected poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

    To friends behind a border

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2023 1:25


    By Tomas Transömer

    The Widow's Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2023 3:33


    https://poets.org/poem/widows-lament-springtime https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams

    Bottled water by Kim Dower

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2023 4:06


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56508/bottled-water https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kim-dower

    bottled water kim dower
    Childhood's retreat and Often I am permitted to return to a meadow by Robert Duncan

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2023 8:59


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-duncan https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46321/childhoods-retreat https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46317/often-i-am-permitted-to-return-to-a-meadow

    poems from the wild iris by louise gluck

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2023 6:03


    Gluck, L. (1996). The Wild Iris. ECCO Press.https://pankmagazine.com/2013/02/12/books-we-cant-quit-the-wild-iris-by-louise-gluck-a-review-by-rachel-mennies/

    Father's old blue cardigan by Anne Carson

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2023 3:12


    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/11/10/fathers-old-blue-cardigan

    "Moon" by Kathleen Jamie

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2023 3:20


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55799/moon-56d237b984e78 https://kathleenjamie.com/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kathleen-jamie

    moon kathleen jamie
    "Elegy for a mother still living" by Elana Bell

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2023 2:55


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154631/elegy-for-mother-still-living https://www.elanabell.com/about

    [love is more thicker than forget] by ee cummings

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2023 4:14


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/22224/love-is-more-thicker-than-forgethttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/e-e-cummings

    "Meet me at the lighthouse" by Dana Gioia

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2023 3:17


    Gioia, Dana. (2023). Meet me at the lighthouse. Gray Wolf Press. Minneapolis, Minnesota. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Gioia

    One hundred love sonnets: xvii by Pablo Neruda

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2023 3:46


    Neruda, Pablo, et al. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems. City Lights Books, 2004. https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-are-the-different-types-of-sonnets-4-main-types-of-sonnets-with-examples

    The day of our divorce hearing by Ruth Lepson

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2022 2:06


    https://poem-today.tumblr.com/post/662745689100615680/a-poem-by-ruth-lepson

    Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 1:46


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47734/lying-in-a-hammock-at-william-duffys-farm-in-pine-island-minnesota

    from twenty love poems by pablo neruda

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2022 6:41


    Neruda, P., & Eisner, M. A. (2004). The essential Neruda: Selected poems. City Lights Books.

    At last the secret is out by W. h. auden

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2022 2:43


    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/at-last-the-secret-is-out-by-wh-auden-8pc77qqnmpn https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/03/20/secret-auden/

    Lunar new year (元日) by Wangan Shi (王安石)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2022 3:48


    https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-01-25/Mastering-Chinese-Poetry-Ep-8-Chinese-New-Year-s-Day-NuUEuGUWcg/index.html

    Poem about morning by William Meredith

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2022 6:14


    https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2002%252F05%252F29.html

    Family reunion by Maxine Kumin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2022 4:00


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48918/family-reunion-56d22a8b77459

    The unknown citizen by W. H. Auden

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2021 4:37


    www.poets.org/poem/unknown-citizen

    The passionate shepherd to his lover (Christopher Marlowe) and the nymph's reply (Sir Walter Ralegh)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2021 4:58


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44675/the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44939/the-nymphs-reply-to-the-shepherd

    Dream deferred (Harlem) and The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 3:06


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44428/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers

    The order in which things are broken by Desirée Alvarez

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2021 2:44


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/52877/the-order-in-which-things-are-broken

    Sleep in a new city by Mark Wunderlich

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2021 2:37


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=39459

    Sleep by Jorge Luis Borges

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2021 2:10


    www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentid=38645

    [Sleeping sister of a farther sky] by Karen Volkman

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2021 3:12


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55827/sleeping-sister-of-a-farther-sky

    Antique by Robert Pinsky

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2021 3:14


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57102/antique-56d23a4272507

    War is kind by Stephen King

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2021 3:26


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47650/war-is-kind-do-not-weep-maiden-for-war-is-kind https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/veterans-day-facts

    Morning song by Sylvia Plath

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2021 4:02


    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/05/yuja-wang-and-the-art-of-performance https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49008/morning-song-56d22ab4a0cee

    Love poem by Guan Daosheng

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 3:32


    From 'Chinese Erotic Poems'

    Ghost in the land of skeletons by Christopher Kennedy

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2021 1:59


    Poets.org/poem/ghost-land-skeletons

    Haunted houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 4:41


    https://poets.org/poem/haunted-houses

    Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2021 2:59


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel_Lee

    Her lips are copper wire by Jean Toomer

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2021 2:57


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-toomer

    Five poems by Tomas Transtromer

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021 4:36


    https://us.macmillan.com/books/978037453353

    Collected poems by Sara Teasdale

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2021 4:37


    Poetry foundation.org/poets/sara-teasdale

    October by Louise Gluck

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2021 9:23


    https://poems.com/poem/october-section-i https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/12/gluck-lecture-english.pdf

    Recuerdo by Edna St Vincent Millay

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2021 2:31


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14404/recuerdo

    Now by Denis Johnson

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2021 3:14


    https://www.facebook.com/poetryandcoffee/posts/nowby-denis-johnsonwhatever-the-foghorns-arethe-voices-of-feels-terribletonight-/1658302821072816/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/books/denis-johnson-dead-author-of-jesus-son.html?.?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&gclsrc=ds&gclsrc=ds https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/denis-johnsons-lasting-advice

    The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual by Ada Limón

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2021 3:22


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147503/the-contract-says-we39d-like-the-conversation-to-be-bilingual https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html

    Grief by Matthew Dickman

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2021 4:36


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150394/grief-5d0c057c36f0c

    grief matthew dickman
    In this galaxy by Diane Wakoski

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2021 2:20


    https://voetica.com/voetica.php?collection=2&poet=683&poem=5964

    The emperor of ice cream by Wallace Stevens

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 3:40


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45234/the-emperor-of-ice-cream: "The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. In the context of death, an echo of Hamlet's comment to Claudius: 'Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.' " https://readingdysfunctionalfamilies.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/hamlets-speech-of-worms/

    A New National Anthem by Ada Limón

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2021 5:19


    https://harpers.org/archive/2014/09/washington-is-burning/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ada-limon https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147506/a-new-national-anthem

    Quatrains by Rumi

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2021 2:55


    Open secret Ǧalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Moyne, John. and Barks, Coleman. 1999. Boston (Mass.): Shambala.

    The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter by Ezra Pound

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2021 4:38


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47692/the-river-merchants-wife-a-letter-56d22853677f9 https://frankhudson.org/2017/07/09/the-river-merchants-wife/

    Arabic by Agha Shahid Ali

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2021 4:16


    From "Call me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals", Agha Shahid Ali, 2003, W. W. Norton, NY.

    Facts about the moon by Dorianne Laux

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2021 5:15


    http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2009/02/dorianne-laux.html https://cclitmag.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/facts-about-the-moon-by-dorianne-laux/

    Sheeps by Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2021 6:04


    https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/fernando-pessoa

    Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) by Frank O'Hara

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2021 2:59


    https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/a-visual-footnote-for-frank-oharas-poem-lana-turner-has-collapsed/comment-page-1/ https://www.frankohara.org/audio/

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