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And with that, here's today's episode.

Welcome back to the Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios.

I'm David Kern, and today is Tuesday, June 6th, 2023. Today's poem is by Robert Haas, an American

poet. He served as poet laureate of the U.S. from 95 to 97. He won the 2007 National Book Award,

and he shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his collection, Time and Materials, Poems,

1997 to 2005. And he was also awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American

Poets in 2014. So in short, Haas is one of the more consequential poets of the last several decades in American letters.

And the poem that I'm going to read today is called The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate.

I will read it once and then offer a few comments and then read it one more time,

as is our custom here on the Daily Poem.

So here is the failure of Buffalo to levitate.

Millard Fillmore died here.

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