On The Fly

In this episode - At Christmas . . . by Edgar Guest, narrated by Lori Ball. I stumbled upon this poem while doing a Google search for holiday poetry to recite for the Podcast. Allow me to tell you a bit about the Poet. Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American  poet  famous in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet. He began his career at the  Detroit Free Press  as a copyboy and then as a reporter; his first poem appeared on December 11, 1898. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout  North America . From his first published work in the  Detroit Free Press,  until he died in 1959, Guest penned 11,000 poems syndicated in over 300 newspapers. Guest was named  Poet Laureate  of Michigan, the only Poet awarded the title. His popularity led to a weekly Detroit radio show he hosted from 1931 until 1942, followed by a 1951  NBC  television series,  A Guest in Your House. He also had t...