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Sleepytime Poetry is a health podcast hosted by Jeff Kaplan. It has 13 episodes, with the latest published July 2025.

Soothing classical poetry with guided meditations to help you get to sleep.  Relax to theater professor Jeff Kaplan's calming voice as you drift into dreams.

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Episode 13: A Sleeply Long Goblin Poem—"Goblin Market," by Christina Rossetti

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Episode 12: Sleepy Poems by Women Writers—Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sara Teasdale, Christina Rossetti, & Matilda Blind

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Episode 11: Sleepy Poems about Dancing—William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carrol, Sir Henry Newbolt, & Richard Lovelace

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Episode 10: A Sleepy Long Poem about Nature—Edna St. Vincent Milay

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Episode 9: Sleepy Sonnets about Sleep—William Shakespeare

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Episode 8: Sleepy Poems about the Rain— Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aunt Effie

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Episode 7: Sleepy Poems by Robert Frost

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Episode 6: Sleepy Poems of the Stars—Jane Taylor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Keats, Lucretia Maria Davidson, Sara Teasdale, & Emily Dickinson

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Episode 5: Sleepy Poems of the Moon—Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Stanley Braithwaite, E.E. Cummings, Sara Teasdale, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, & William Blake

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Episode 4: Sleepy Poems from Ancient English—William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, & anonymous Anglo-Saxon poets

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Episode 3: Sleepy Poems of the Ocean—Edmund Spencer, Matthew Arnold, Rainer Maria Rilke, & Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Episode 2: Sleepy Poems About Sleep—William Shakespeare, John Keats, & Edgar Allen Poe

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Episode 1: Sleepy Poems of the Forest—William Shakespeare, Christina Rosetti, & Amos Russel Wells

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