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6:46

Dylan Thomas' "Prologue"

Listen now | Today’s poem, unusual in its structure and rhyme, turned out to be more of an epilogue: Thomas composed it for inclusion in his Collected…

24 hrs ago • Sean Johnson

Wendell Berry's "Sabbath I, 1996"

A little more Berry today–this time, a brief tribute to a fellow poet.

Jan 20 • Sean Johnson

2:48

Wendell Berry's "Sabbath IV, 1996"

I may be the only other man who has had some version of the cold-night-existential experience described in today’s poem, but I doubt it.

Jan 19 • Sean Johnson

2:55

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Feast”

Today’s poem is one in which “increase of appetite grows by what it feeds on” (or so she says).

Jan 17 • Sean Johnson

4:16

Thomas Campion's "Now Winter Nights Enlarge"

Today’s poem sings of a time before Netflix, before Settlers of Catan, before 24-Hour Fitness; a time when one’s only prospects for passing the…

Jan 15 • Sean Johnson

3:20

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