Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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This episode of Poetry Thursday is devoted to the poetry of summer.

Poems read:

Dickinson, Emily. "122. A Something in a summer's day" in The Complete
Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Little, Brown and
Co., 1951.

Whitman, Walt. "Miracles." In the public domain.

Teasdale, Sara. "Summer Night, Riverside." In the public domain.

Frost, Robert. "The Oven Bird." in The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected
Poems, complete and unabridged. Ed.Edward Connery Lathem.
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969.

Williams, William Carlos. "Summer Song." In the public domain.

Gluck, Louise. "Vespers" in The Wild Iris. Harper Collins, 1992.

Lee, Li-Young. "From Blossoms." in Rose. BOA Editions, 1986.

Piercy, Marge. "More Than Enough." in Colors Passing Through Us.
Alfred A, Knopf, 2003.

Berry, Wendell. "The Heron." in New Collected Poems, 1964-2010.
Counterpoint, 2012.

Oliver, Mary. "The Sun" and "The Summer Day" in Devotions: The
Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. Penguin Press, 2017.

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