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Emily Reads

by Emily H

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 [email protected]

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  1. The graduate leaving college

    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 ...

  2. Three poems (Czesław Miłosz, Robert Pinsky)

    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.

  3. To friends behind a border

    By Tomas Transömer

  4. The Widow's Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams

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

  5. Bottled water by Kim Dower

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

  6. Childhood's retreat and Often I am permitted to return to a meadow by Robert Duncan

    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

  7. poems from the wild iris by louise gluck

    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/

  8. Father's old blue cardigan by Anne Carson

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

  9. "Moon" by Kathleen Jamie

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

  10. "Elegy for a mother still living" by Elana Bell

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

  11. [love is more thicker than forget] by ee cummings

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

  12. "Meet me at the lighthouse" by Dana Gioia

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

  13. One hundred love sonnets: xvii by Pablo Neruda

    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

  14. The day of our divorce hearing by Ruth Lepson

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

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

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

  16. from twenty love poems by pablo neruda

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

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

    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/

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

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

  19. Poem about morning by William Meredith

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

  20. Family reunion by Maxine Kumin

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

  21. The unknown citizen by W. H. Auden

    www.poets.org/poem/unknown-citizen

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

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

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

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

  24. The order in which things are broken by Desirée Alvarez

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

  25. Sleep in a new city by Mark Wunderlich

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

  26. Sleep by Jorge Luis Borges

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

  27. [Sleeping sister of a farther sky] by Karen Volkman

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

  28. Antique by Robert Pinsky

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

  29. War is kind by Stephen King

    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

  30. Morning song by Sylvia Plath

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

  31. Love poem by Guan Daosheng

    From 'Chinese Erotic Poems'

  32. Ghost in the land of skeletons by Christopher Kennedy

    Poets.org/poem/ghost-land-skeletons

  33. Haunted houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

  34. Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

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

  35. Her lips are copper wire by Jean Toomer

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

  36. Five poems by Tomas Transtromer

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

  37. Collected poems by Sara Teasdale

    Poetry foundation.org/poets/sara-teasdale

  38. October by Louise Gluck

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

  39. Recuerdo by Edna St Vincent Millay

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

  40. Now by Denis Johnson

    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...

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

    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

  42. Grief by Matthew Dickman

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

  43. In this galaxy by Diane Wakoski

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

  44. The emperor of ice cream by Wallace Stevens

    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.'…

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  45. A New National Anthem by Ada Limón

    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

  46. Quatrains by Rumi

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

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

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

  48. Arabic by Agha Shahid Ali

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

  49. Facts about the moon by Dorianne Laux

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

  50. Sheeps by Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa)

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

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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 [email protected]

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