Read Me a Poem

“The Little Boat” by Jane Kenyon

Amanda Holmes reads Jane Kenyon’s “The Little Boat [https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/iowareview/article/id/21285/download/pdf/].” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

“Epilogue” by Robert Lowell

Amanda Holmes reads Robert Lowell’s “Epilogue [https://poets.org/poem/epilogue].” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.   This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

“Leda and the Swan” by W. B. Yeats

Amanda Holmes reads W. B. Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43292/leda-and-the-swan].” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

From “Midsummer” by Derek Walcott

Amanda Holmes reads “XXVIII [https://www.tumblr.com/midsummerwithwalcott/124184189397/xxviii]” from Derek Walcott’s Midsummer. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

“Soap Suds” by Louis MacNeice

Amanda Holmes reads Louis MacNeice’s “Soap Suds [https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2002%252F09%252F12.html].” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.