Li Bai’s “Taking Leave of a Friend”

Today’s poem weathers the unfriendliness of the natural world. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe 

In today’s poem the bard urges his subject not to bury the gifts of Nature in the grave. Happy reading.Want to send your teen to a day of Shakespearean wisdom (and folly) this July? You can find out more about the CiRCE Institute National Conference and our Pre-Conference event f ... Show More

Today’s poem, translated from the Irish by Seamus Heaney, delivers precisely what the title promises. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe 

T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Part One). This is the first of two episodes devoted to one of the most famous poems of the twentieth century, wherein Eliot’s enigmatic speaker invites us on an evening stroll through his memories, his fears and his inhibitions ... Show More

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