This is a wonderful collection of poetry compiled by Garrison Keillor. Some are old, some modern and even though it's missing "In a Station of the Metro", it's a very enjoyable collection. :-) ( )

My love of "A Prairie Home Companion" has died, but I think I will always love Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" and this collection of excellent poems. I really enjoyed reading one a day (though I wasn't great about sticking to it for a whole year). So from one Professional English Major to another, kudos to Mr. Keillor for his great picks! (Though he really shouldn't sing quite so much on APHC.) ( )

Hard to rate something like this - some of the contained poems are among the great works of literature. I somewhat preferred his other anthology Good Poems for Hard Times. ( )

This is what I have always wanted in a compilation. ( )

It has been years since I read any poetry. I listened to this on Audible. I thought listening to the poetry read aloud would be more enjoyable for me. That was a good call. Hearing the poetry read well had more impact than sounding it in my head. Also, a variety of narrators read the poems. The variety and the distinctiveness of some of the voices added to the experience. What didn't work? The execution. With some poems, you got the title and author at the beginning of the poem. Sometimes you got the title at the beginning of the poem and the author at the end. And sometimes you got neither the title or the author, just the poem. Another frustration is you did not know who was narrating. I recognized some of the voices but was frustrated in trying to find out who they were. Some of the voices I did not care for that much. Even the recording was a bit spotty; in some cases the volume seemed to jump. Finally, one poem immediately moved into another, with no information on the author or why a set of poems was grouped together. Ultimately, I enjoyed some of the poems and others not so much, but I think my inexperience accounts for some of that result. I do plan to listen to more poetry this year, so this initial venture had a positive outcome. ( )