#242 - Anthology: poems on being a parent

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:

• ⁠“Morning Song,”⁠ by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
• ⁠“Child Crying Out,”⁠ by Louise Glück (1943-2023)
• ⁠“First Snow”⁠ read by Louise Glück (⁠audio from here⁠)
• ⁠“This Be the Verse,”⁠ by Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
• ⁠“Lucinda Matlock,”⁠ by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
• ⁠“On My First Sonne”⁠ (Epigrammes XLV), by Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
• ⁠“The Pomegranate,”⁠ by Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
• ⁠“Surprized by joy – impatient as the wind,”⁠ by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
• ⁠“Eden Rock,”⁠ by Charles Causley (1924-2007)
• ⁠“My Young Mother,”⁠ by Jane Cooper (1924-2007)
• ⁠“Waiting,”⁠ by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
• ⁠from King Lear,⁠ by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• ⁠“Life after Death,”⁠ by Ted Hughes (1930-1998)

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