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
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 ...
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.
https://poets.org/poem/widows-lament-springtime https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56508/bottled-water https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kim-dower
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
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/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/11/10/fathers-old-blue-cardigan
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55799/moon-56d237b984e78 https://kathleenjamie.com/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kathleen-jamie
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154631/elegy-for-mother-still-living https://www.elanabell.com/about
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/22224/love-is-more-thicker-than-forgethttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/e-e-cummings
Gioia, Dana. (2023). Meet me at the lighthouse. Gray Wolf Press. Minneapolis, Minnesota. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Gioia
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
https://poem-today.tumblr.com/post/662745689100615680/a-poem-by-ruth-lepson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47734/lying-in-a-hammock-at-william-duffys-farm-in-pine-island-minnesota
Neruda, P., & Eisner, M. A. (2004). The essential Neruda: Selected poems. City Lights Books.
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/
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-01-25/Mastering-Chinese-Poetry-Ep-8-Chinese-New-Year-s-Day-NuUEuGUWcg/index.html
https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2002%252F05%252F29.html
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48918/family-reunion-56d22a8b77459
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44675/the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44939/the-nymphs-reply-to-the-shepherd
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44428/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/52877/the-order-in-which-things-are-broken
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=39459
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentid=38645
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55827/sleeping-sister-of-a-farther-sky
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57102/antique-56d23a4272507
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
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/05/yuja-wang-and-the-art-of-performance https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49008/morning-song-56d22ab4a0cee
Poets.org/poem/ghost-land-skeletons
https://poets.org/poem/haunted-houses
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel_Lee
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-toomer
https://us.macmillan.com/books/978037453353
Poetry foundation.org/poets/sara-teasdale
https://poems.com/poem/october-section-i https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2020/12/gluck-lecture-english.pdf
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14404/recuerdo
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
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
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150394/grief-5d0c057c36f0c
https://voetica.com/voetica.php?collection=2&poet=683&poem=5964
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/
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
Open secret Ǧalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Moyne, John. and Barks, Coleman. 1999. Boston (Mass.): Shambala.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47692/the-river-merchants-wife-a-letter-56d22853677f9 https://frankhudson.org/2017/07/09/the-river-merchants-wife/
From "Call me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals", Agha Shahid Ali, 2003, W. W. Norton, NY.
http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2009/02/dorianne-laux.html https://cclitmag.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/facts-about-the-moon-by-dorianne-laux/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/fernando-pessoa
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/