Read Me a Poem

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Each week, listen to Amanda Holmes introduce and read a poem, beautifully.

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Episode Date
“Hymn” by A. R. Ammons
May 14, 2024
“Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich
May 07, 2024
“Spring” by J. R. Solonche
Apr 30, 2024
“The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop
Apr 23, 2024
From Las Cosas Nuevas by Ennio Moltedo
Apr 16, 2024
“Nostos” by Louise Glück
Apr 09, 2024
“The Limits of Love” by Yahia Lababidi
Apr 02, 2024
“Said Hanrahan” by John O’Brien
Mar 26, 2024
“My Possessions” by Charles Simic
Mar 19, 2024
“The Sick Wife” by Jane Kenyon
Mar 12, 2024
“Snow” by David Berman
Mar 05, 2024
“I Want to Write” by Margaret Walker
Feb 27, 2024
“Someone” by Dennis O’Driscoll
Feb 20, 2024
“Poem about My Rights” by June Jordan
Feb 13, 2024
“To a Milkmaid” by Carolyn Wells
Feb 06, 2024
“The Hill-Shade” by William Barnes
Jan 30, 2024
“The Earth is Closing on Us” by Mahmoud Darwish
Jan 23, 2024
“Justice Denied in Massachusetts” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jan 16, 2024
“Eurydice” by Linda Gregg
Jan 09, 2024
“Stages” by Hermann Hesse
Jan 02, 2024
“Envoy” by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dec 26, 2023
“The Mist on the Mountain” by Loren Eiseley
Dec 19, 2023
“The Coming of Light” by Mark Strand
Dec 12, 2023
Selections from Hafiz’s Little Book of Life
Dec 05, 2023
“Ox Cart Man” by Donald Hall
Nov 28, 2023
“Winter Creek” by Jim Harrison
Nov 21, 2023
“My Story in a Late Style of Fire” by Larry Levis
Nov 14, 2023
“I Explain a Few Things” by Pablo Neruda
Nov 07, 2023
“Her Kind” by Anne Sexton
Oct 31, 2023
“Consolation” by Wislawa Szymborska
Oct 24, 2023
“The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Oct 17, 2023
“The Watcher” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Oct 10, 2023
“In My Desire to Be Nude” by José Garcia Villa
Oct 03, 2023
“Lullaby” by May Sarton
Sep 26, 2023
A Selection from “Station Island” by Seamus Heaney
Sep 19, 2023
“I Want Both of Us” by Hafiz
Sep 12, 2023
“How to Remember Heat” by Michelle Murphy
Sep 05, 2023
“A Poem for the Two of Us” by Mika Antic
Aug 29, 2023
“Waiting for Icarus” by Muriel Rukeyser
Aug 22, 2023
“The Silence” by C. K. Williams
Aug 15, 2023
“The Great Lover” by Rupert Brooke
Aug 08, 2023
“Upon Julia’s Clothes” by Robert Herrick
Aug 01, 2023
“I Am Learning to Abandon the World” by Linda Pastan
Jul 25, 2023
“Sea Rose” by H. D.
Jul 18, 2023
“The Night Alarm” by Veronika Tushnova
Jul 11, 2023
“When I Love You” by Nizar Qabbani
Jul 04, 2023
“En Route” by Adam Zagajewski
Jun 27, 2023
“Morning Swim” by Maxine Kumin
Jun 20, 2023
“The Portrait” by Stanley Kunitz
Jun 13, 2023
“Leap Minnows, Leap” by James Still
Jun 06, 2023
“Huswifery” by Edward Taylor
May 30, 2023
“Keeping Quiet” by Pablo Neruda
May 23, 2023
“The Call” by Charlotte Mew
May 16, 2023
“The Diameter of the Bomb” by Yehuda Amichai
May 09, 2023
“Take Only What Is Most Important” by Serhiy Zhadan
May 02, 2023
“The Bluebird” by Charles Bukowski
Apr 25, 2023
“Seth Compton” by Edgar Lee Masters
Apr 18, 2023
“A Hand Not Ready for Birds” by Muhammed Ali Chamseddine
Apr 11, 2023
“The Flower-School” by Rabindranath Tagore
Apr 04, 2023
“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens
Mar 28, 2023
“Three O’Clock 1942” by Grace Cavalieri
Mar 21, 2023
“Black Mother Woman” by Audre Lorde
Mar 14, 2023
“My Grandmother’s Love Letters” by Hart Crane
Mar 07, 2023
“The Hospital” by Patrick Kavanagh
Feb 28, 2023
“Not Only the Eskimos” by Lisel Mueller
Feb 21, 2023
“The Dacca Gauzes” by Agha Shahid Ali
Feb 14, 2023
“The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot
Feb 07, 2023
“Recuerdo” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jan 31, 2023
“Postscript” by Seamus Heaney
Jan 24, 2023
“The Patience of Ordinary Things” by Pat Schneider
Jan 17, 2023
“The Illiterate” by William Meredith
Jan 10, 2023
“The Fig Tree” by Lasse Söderberg
Jan 03, 2023
“I cannot live with You” by Emily Dickinson
Dec 27, 2022
“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara
Dec 20, 2022
“I Have So Often Dreamed of You” by Robert Desnos
Dec 13, 2022
“what the mirror said” by Lucille Clifton
Dec 06, 2022
“The Sadness of Clothes” by Emily Fragos
Nov 29, 2022
“We Lived Happily During the War” by Ilya Kaminsky
Nov 22, 2022
“For My People” by Margaret Walker
Nov 15, 2022
“The Glow of the Night Sky” by Jaan Kaplinski
Nov 08, 2022
“The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nov 01, 2022
“He Is Quiet and So Am I” by Mahmoud Darwish
Oct 25, 2022
“Plurality” by Louis MacNeice
Oct 18, 2022
“Under a Certain Little Star” by Wislawa Szymborska
Oct 11, 2022
“The Yellow Star That Goes With Me” by Jessica Greenbaum
Oct 04, 2022
“Unending Love” by Rabindranath Tagore
Sep 27, 2022
“Give Me Back My Rags” by Vasko Popa
Sep 20, 2022
“Talking in Bed” by Philip Larkin
Sep 13, 2022
“To Father” by Nini Lungalang
Sep 06, 2022
“The Singing Cat” by Stevie Smith
Aug 30, 2022
“Ich grolle nicht” by Heinrich Heine
Aug 23, 2022
“The Taxi” by Amy Lowell
Aug 09, 2022
“Work Is My Secret Lover” by Grace Cavalieri
Aug 02, 2022
“I, Lover” by Elsa Gidlow
Jul 26, 2022
“Harriet in the Promised Land” by Sam Cornish
Jul 19, 2022
“An Introduction” by Kamala Das
Jul 12, 2022
A Very Specific Excerpt from “Maud” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Jul 05, 2022
“nobody but you” by Charles Bukowski
Jun 28, 2022
“She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep” by Robert Graves
Jun 21, 2022
“In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.” by June Jordan
Jun 14, 2022
“Birth of the Foal” by Ferenc Juhasz
Jun 07, 2022
“I Love to See the Summer Beaming Forth” by John Clare
May 31, 2022
“Adlestrop” by Edward Thomas
May 24, 2022
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh
May 17, 2022
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe
May 10, 2022
“In Country Sleep” by Dylan Thomas
May 03, 2022
“Nevertheless” by Marianne Moore
Apr 26, 2022
“The Color Blue” by Boris Pasternak
Apr 19, 2022
“The Love I Gave You Once” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Apr 12, 2022
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson
Apr 05, 2022
“Soldiers Aim at Us” by Ilya Kaminsky
Mar 29, 2022
“Kisses” by Gabriela Mistral
Mar 22, 2022
“Nothing Twice” by Wislawa Szymborska
Mar 15, 2022
“The Rumination of Rivers” by William Bronk
Mar 08, 2022
“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mar 01, 2022
“At the American Express Office” by Edith Bruck
Feb 22, 2022
“Touch Me” by Stanley Kunitz
Feb 15, 2022
“Love After Love” by Derek Walcott
Feb 08, 2022
“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens
Feb 01, 2022
“Sometimes, Oh, Often, Indeed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jan 25, 2022
“A Litany of Survival” by Audre Lorde
Jan 18, 2022
“Winter Scene” by A. R. Ammons
Jan 11, 2022
“No One Has Taken Anything Away” by Marina Tsvetaeva
Jan 04, 2022
“Vultures” by Chinua Achebe
Dec 28, 2021
“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy
Dec 21, 2021
“Walking Away” by Cecil Day Lewis
Dec 14, 2021
“A Song” by Joseph Brodsky
Dec 07, 2021
“Farewell” by Agha Shahid Ali
Nov 30, 2021
“Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert
Nov 23, 2021
“The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall
Nov 16, 2021
“Salutation to the Dawn” by Kalidasa
Nov 09, 2021
“The Quarrel” by Katherine Mansfield
Nov 02, 2021
“There’s a Moon Inside My Body” by Kabir
Oct 26, 2021
“When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats
Oct 19, 2021
“On Living” by Nâzim Hikmet
Oct 12, 2021
“Abduction” by Saadi Youssef
Oct 05, 2021
“The Lightkeeper” by Carolyn Forché
Sep 28, 2021
“The child (who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga)” by Ingrid Jonker
Sep 21, 2021
“My Philosophy of Life” by John Ashbery
Sep 14, 2021
“The Day Is Done” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sep 07, 2021
“A Woman Speaks” by Audre Lorde
Aug 31, 2021
“Lake Echo, Dear” by C. D. Wright
Aug 24, 2021
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich
Aug 17, 2021
“The Uninvited” by Dannie Abse
Aug 10, 2021
“Sonnet: Grief Dies” by Henry Timrod
Aug 03, 2021
“Remember” by Christina Rossetti
Jul 27, 2021
“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Jul 20, 2021
“To Licinius” by Horace
Jul 13, 2021
“If China” by Stanislaw Baranczak
Jul 06, 2021
“The Innocence of Solomon” by Nick Joaquin
Jun 29, 2021
“On the Birth of a Son” by Su Tung-Po
Jun 22, 2021
“Letter to the Front” by Muriel Rukeyser
Jun 15, 2021
“Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words” by Mahmoud Darwish
Jun 08, 2021
“Sunflower Sutra” by Allen Ginsberg
Jun 01, 2021
“A Ritual to Read to Each Other” by William Stafford
May 25, 2021
“cutting greens” by Lucille Clifton
May 18, 2021
“The Haunted Beach” by Mary Robinson
May 11, 2021
“The Wind Will Blow Us Away” by Forugh Farrokhzad
May 04, 2021
“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by E. E. Cummings
Apr 27, 2021
“Song of the Rain” by Kahlil Gibran
Apr 20, 2021
“Everyone Sang” by Siegfried Sassoon
Apr 13, 2021
“A Letter” by Amrita Pritam
Apr 06, 2021
“Who Is This” by Rabindranath Tagore
Mar 30, 2021
“Home Burial” by Robert Frost
Mar 23, 2021
“Tarantella” by Hilaire Belloc
Mar 16, 2021
“Palindrome” by Lisel Mueller
Mar 09, 2021
“Stanzas” by Emily Brontë
Mar 02, 2021
“The Guest House” by Rumi
Feb 23, 2021
“Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden
Feb 16, 2021
“Love at First Sight” by Wislawa Szymborska
Feb 09, 2021
“Miniature Snowstorm” by Rosamund Stanhope
Feb 02, 2021
“Tonight I Can Write (the Saddest Lines)” by Pablo Neruda
Jan 26, 2021
“You, Andrew Marvell” by Archibald MacLeish
Jan 19, 2021
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
Jan 12, 2021
“A Prison Evening” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Jan 05, 2021
“Lights Out” by Edward Thomas
Dec 29, 2020
“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
Dec 22, 2020
“A Bird, came down the Walk” by Emily Dickinson
Dec 15, 2020
“Sonnet 14” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dec 08, 2020
“Wait” by Galway Kinnell
Dec 01, 2020
“Pangur Bán” by Anonymous
Nov 24, 2020
“Messiah” by Gulzar
Nov 17, 2020
“The Swan” by Mary Oliver
Nov 10, 2020
“Neutral Tones” by Thomas Hardy
Nov 03, 2020
“Wind-Up Doll” by Forugh Farrokhzad
Oct 27, 2020
“Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop
Oct 20, 2020
“Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W. B. Yeats
Oct 13, 2020
“Burnt Norton” by T. S. Eliot
Sep 29, 2020
“Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.” by Nissim Ezekiel
Sep 22, 2020
“I Sit and Sew” by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Sep 15, 2020
“The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car” by Dorothea Grossman
Sep 08, 2020
“The Canonization” by John Donne
Sep 01, 2020
“Let Me Begin Again” by Philip Levine
Aug 25, 2020
“Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Aug 18, 2020
“Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth
Aug 11, 2020
“The Quartz Pebble” by Vasko Popa
Aug 04, 2020
“A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jul 28, 2020
“To the Young Who Want to Die” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Jul 21, 2020
“O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
Jul 14, 2020
Bonus Episode: An Interview with Amanda Holmes
Jul 07, 2020
“Land That I Love: Farewell” by José Rizal
Jul 07, 2020
“Halfway Down” by A. A. Milne
Jun 30, 2020
“Convolvulus” by Helen Dunmore
Jun 23, 2020
“Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats
Jun 16, 2020
“Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou
Jun 09, 2020
“Eros Turannos” by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Jun 02, 2020
“Summer in Calcutta” by Kamala Das
May 26, 2020
“The Trees” by Philip Larkin
May 19, 2020
“If You Forget Me” by Pablo Neruda
May 12, 2020
“Postcard from Kashmir” by Agha Shahid Ali
May 05, 2020
“The Courage Of Shutting-Up” by Sylvia Plath
Apr 28, 2020
“Nod” by Walter de la Mare
Apr 21, 2020
“Because It’s Good to Keep Things Straight” by Kenneth Patchen
Apr 14, 2020
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold
Apr 07, 2020
“Driving Glove” by Claudia Emerson
Mar 31, 2020
“the lost baby poem” by Lucille Clifton
Mar 24, 2020
“Poetry, a Natural Thing” by Robert Duncan
Mar 17, 2020
“The Hard Question” by W. H. Auden
Mar 10, 2020
“Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich
Mar 03, 2020
“Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Feb 25, 2020
“Birches” by Robert Frost
Feb 18, 2020
“Love Poem” by Audre Lorde
Feb 11, 2020
“The Gravel Walks” by Seamus Heaney
Feb 04, 2020
“Advice to a Girl” by Sara Teasdale
Jan 28, 2020
“miss rosie” by Lucille Clifton
Jan 21, 2020
“I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke
Jan 14, 2020
“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
Jan 07, 2020
“The Listeners” by Walter de La Mare
Dec 31, 2019
“Forgotten As If You Never Were” by Mahmoud Darwish
Dec 24, 2019
“Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School” by Jane Kenyon
Dec 17, 2019
An Excerpt from “Gitanjali” by Rabindranath Tagore
Dec 09, 2019
“My November Guest” by Robert Frost
Nov 25, 2019
“Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski
Nov 15, 2019
“Dungeon” by Rabindranath Tagore
Nov 08, 2019
“November Rain” by Jaroslav Seifert
Nov 01, 2019
“[hist whist]” by E. E. Cummings
Oct 25, 2019
“The Life Beyond” by Rupert Brooke
Oct 18, 2019
“The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens
Oct 11, 2019
“Lines to a Nasturtium” by Anne Spencer
Oct 04, 2019
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot
Sep 26, 2019
“The Purist” by Ogden Nash
Sep 20, 2019
“Any Case” by Wislawa Szymborska
Sep 06, 2019
“Elderly Tears” by Leonardo Sinisgalli
Aug 30, 2019
“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Aug 23, 2019
“I Remember” by Stevie Smith
Aug 16, 2019
“Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke
Aug 09, 2019
“227 (my darling since)” by E. E. Cummings
Aug 02, 2019
“60 yard pass” by Charles Bukowski
Jul 26, 2019
“An Essay on Man: Epistle 1” by Alexander Pope
Jul 19, 2019
“The Makers” by Howard Nemerov
Jul 12, 2019
“Our Casuarina Tree” by Toru Dutt
Jul 05, 2019
“Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman” by Anne Sexton
Jun 28, 2019
“Bessie Coleman Falling from the Sky” by Dolores Kendrick
Jun 21, 2019
An Excerpt from William Wordsworth’s Prelude
Jun 14, 2019
“The Troubles of a Book” by Laura Riding
Jun 07, 2019
“My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson
May 31, 2019
“To a Poor Old Woman” by William Carlos Williams
May 17, 2019
“The Ups and Downs of the Elevator Car” by Caroline D. Emerson
May 10, 2019
“Aubade” by Philip Larkin
May 03, 2019
“Well, I have lost you” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Apr 26, 2019
“I Am Not I” by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Apr 19, 2019
“Daffodils” by Ted Hughes
Apr 12, 2019
“Gus: the Theatre Cat” by T. S. Eliot
Apr 05, 2019
“Bessie Dreaming Bear” by Marnie Walsh
Mar 29, 2019
“To the Insects” by W. S. Merwin
Mar 22, 2019
“Sonnet XVII” by Pablo Neruda
Mar 15, 2019
“Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou
Mar 08, 2019
“Crossing the Bar ” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mar 01, 2019
“Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
Feb 22, 2019
“I shall forget you presently, my dear” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Feb 15, 2019
“The Flea” by John Donne
Feb 08, 2019
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson
Feb 01, 2019
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll
Jan 25, 2019
“Fever 103” by Sylvia Plath
Jan 18, 2019
“Lot’s Wife” by Anna Akhmatova
Jan 11, 2019
“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden
Jan 04, 2019
“The Planet on the Table” by Wallace Stevens
Dec 28, 2018
“The King’s Breakfast” by A. A. Milne
Dec 21, 2018
“To Be in Love” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Dec 14, 2018
“Church Going” by Philip Larkin
Dec 07, 2018
“The Pool” by H. D.
Nov 30, 2018
“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” by Edward Lear
Nov 16, 2018
“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
Nov 09, 2018
“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes
Nov 02, 2018
“The Sheep Child” by James Dickey
Oct 26, 2018
“The Waking” by Theodore Roethke
Oct 19, 2018
“The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats
Oct 12, 2018
"Not Waving but Drowning" by Stevie Smith
Oct 05, 2018
“Poetry” by Marianne Moore
Sep 26, 2018