Lorenzo de’ Medici’s “The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne”
Today’s poem is a carpe diem lyric penned by the Renaissance patron par excellence: Lorenzo the Magnificent. 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
Dudley Randall’s “Booker T. and W.E.B.”
Today’s poem offers two ways of being in America–maybe the world–and like so many great poems it is eminently concrete but easily universalized. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit da ...Show more
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