Hello and welcome back to the Daily Poem here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern.

On today's episode, we are going to bring you poems by Robert Lewis Stevenson. This is the day you have been waiting for if, in fact, you have been waiting to hear from the winners of our poetry contest. As you know, there have been kids all over the place

memorizing Robert Lewis-Stevenson poems and posting their recitations online with the hashtag

Daily Poem. We took a look at all of those submissions on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and even

some that were sent to me via email. And let me tell you, this was extremely difficult.

There were so many great submissions that narrowing them down was nearly impossible and

deeply painful. And I think this might be the end of the show because I don't know if I'll

survive this. There are too many cute poetry memorizing kids out there to make this an easy task.

But we did settle on three winners for this time. This won't be the last time we do this contest,

but these are the three winners for this time. And they are coming right up after I remind you

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