APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac Podcast feed

Tuesday’s Poem: “Dancing” by Margaret Atwood, from Morning in the Burned House. Tuesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of theologian Martin Luther, born on this day in Eisleben, Germany, in 1483. He was a devout monk who frequently ...

Monday’s Poem: “No Direction Home” by Charles Wright, from Sestets. Monday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day in 1967 that the first issue of Rolling Stone was published. It was started by 21-year-old Jann Wenner, who dropped out of Berkeley ...

Sunday’s Poem: “The Sacred” by Stephen Dunn, from Between Angels. Sunday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Indian novelist Raja Rao, born in Hassan, in southern India (1909). He grew up going to Muslim schools in India, majored in history ...

Saturday’s Poem: “The Thumb” by Peter Schneider, from Line Fence. Saturday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of writer Albert Camus born in Mondovi, Algeria (1913). His book The Stranger was published in 1942, followed by a collection of ...

Wednesday’s Poem: “The Sum of Man” by Norah Pollard, from Death & Rapture in the Animal Kingdom. Wednesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of British satirist Evelyn Waugh, born in London (1903). He came from a literary family, but didn’t ...

Thursday’s Poem: “Psalm for a Lost Summer” by Maura Stanton, from Immortal Sofa. Thursday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the Irish-American writer Tom Phelan, born in County Laois, Ireland (1940). He was a priest, a carpenter, and a ...

Friday’s Poem: “Twenty-three” by Liam Rector, from The Executive Director of the Fallen World. Friday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of actor and novelist Ethan Hawke, born in Austin, Texas (1970). He’s best known for acting in such ...

Tuesday’s Poem: “Driving at Night” by Sheila Packa, from The Mother Tongue. Tuesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of William Cullen Bryant, born in Cummington, Massachusetts (1794), who worked as a lawyer, hated it, wrote a history of ...

Monday’s Poem: “The Accolade of the Animals” by Maxine Kumin, from Selected Poems 1960-1990. Monday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day in 1950 that Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw died, at the age of 94. But it was not old age that he ...

Sunday’s Poem: :“Driving Nails” by Gary Lark, from Getting By. Sunday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the co-founder of postcolonial literary theory and the man described as Palestinians’ “most powerful political voice,” Edward ...

Saturday’s Poem: “How Many Nights” by Galway Kinnell, from Three Books. Saturday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day that Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in 1517, an event that led to the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s initial goal was ...

Friday’s Poem: “She Dreamed of Cows” by Norah Pollard, from Death & Rapture in the Animal Kingdom. Friday’s Literary Notes:It’s the birthday of Ezra Pound, born in Hailey, Idaho (1885). He helped found the Imagist movement, along with H.D. — ...

Thursday’s Poem: “Off to the Country of Cancer” by Liam Rector, from The Executive Director of the Fallen World. Thursday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the current editor of The New Yorker magazine, David Remnick, born in Hackensack, ...

Wednesday’s Poem: “The Sum of Man” by Norah Pollard, from Death & Rapture in the Animal Kingdom. Wednesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of British satirist Evelyn Waugh, born in London (1903). He came from a literary family, but didn’t ...

Wednesday’s Poem: “The Sum of Man” by Norah Pollard, from Death & Rapture in the Animal Kingdom. Wednesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of British satirist Evelyn Waugh, born in London (1903). He came from a literary family, but didn’t ...

Tuesday’s Poem: “The Digging” by Rennie McQuilkin, from The Weathering. Tuesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the novelist Zadie Smith, born in London (1975), who grew up black in a working-class London neighborhood where she had a ...

Monday’s Poem: “Diagramming Won’t Help This Situation” by Kevin Brown, from Exit Lines. Monday’s Literary Notes: On this day 50 years ago (in 1959), The Miracle Worker debuted on Broadway. It’s the story of how Annie Sullivan educated the ...

Sunday’s Poem: :“Baptism” by Ted Thomas Jr., from Singing With The Dead. Sunday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the artist Pablo Picasso, born in Malaga, Spain (1881). Picasso eschewed early success as a commercial artist to paint a ...

Saturday’s Poem: “The Campus in Wartime” by Marvin Bell, from Mars Being Red. Saturday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the comic-book author Bob Kane, born in the Bronx (1916), the creator of Batman. He is alter ego of multimillionaire ...