The Poetry Podcast Smackdown

Item of Note	The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor	Slate Poetry Podcast
Frequency	Daily	Weekly, roughly
Length	5-6 minutes	1-3 minutes
You'll hear	The slow and measured baritone of the inimitable Garrison Keillor	The poets themselves, for better or worse
You'll also have to put up with	Three almost interminable minutes of "on this day in history" poetry news	The most horrible production quality. Imagine tape-recording and old-school answering machine message and then playing the whole thing over the phone. It's incredibly distracting.
The poets	Will have you breaking our your Norton Anthology, because they're all in here: Milton, Donne, Dickenson, Plath. Oh, and some folks who are still alive, too.	Include some of today's heavyweights, including Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
It's a great podcast if	You only can stand poetry when someone really good reads it.	You want to get a daily dose of poetry without committing too much time to doing so.
The verdict	Skip the first three minutes of every podcast. The poem, which comes at the end, is usually worth a listen, and sometimes two.	Skip the first three minutes of every podcast. What? That's the whole thing? Well, Slate, until you can get some better production quality, my suggestion stands.