Anthology: Poems on Being a Parent
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An episode from 1/31/24: Tonight, as a companion to last episode of poems on being a child, I read a handful of poems about being a parent:
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- \\u201cMorning Song,\\u201d by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) \\n
- \\u201cChild Crying Out,\\u201d by Louise Gl\\xfcck (1943-2023) \\n
- \\u201cFirst Snow\\u201d read by Louise Gl\\xfcck (audio from here) \\n
- \\u201cThis Be the Verse,\\u201d by Philip Larkin (1922-1985) \\n
- \\u201cLucinda Matlock,\\u201d by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) \\n
- \\u201cOn My First Sonne\\u201d (Epigrammes XLV), by Ben Jonson (1572-1637) \\n
- \\u201cThe Pomegranate,\\u201d by Eavan Boland (1944-2020) \\n
- \\u201cSurprized by joy \\u2013 impatient as the wind,\\u201d by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) \\n
- \\u201cEden Rock,\\u201d by Charles Causley (1924-2007) \\n
- \\u201cMy Young Mother,\\u201d by Jane Cooper (1924-2007) \\n
- \\u201cWaiting,\\u201d by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) \\n
- from King Lear, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) \\n
- \\u201cLife after Death,\\u201d by Ted Hughes (1930-1998) \\n
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