I don’t know how many of you are aware of The Writer's Almanac. It is a daily audio piece on writing that Garrison Keillor does for public radio, but you can also subscribe either through email or podcasts (i.e., iTunes). The email edition has a link to the audio and also provides a text transcript, which is nice.
It is always good and sometimes quite special (like this one for last Sunday).
The format is simple. There is always a poem of the day (the project is sponsored by the Poetry Foundation), then there are brief bios/descriptions of writers born on that day (e.g., today has Anne Tyler, John Berryman, and Pablo Picasso, and last Sunday was the English Romantic Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
It will sometimes mark days of significance as well (e.g., last Sunday was the day Edison discovered how to make electric light).
To subscribe for the daily email newsletter (which is what I do), click here. To subscribe to the podcast, click here. Currently, it doesn’t have an RSS feed.
Enjoy!
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