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Audio Poem of the Day

1,114 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★ - 321 ratings

Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day.

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Episodes

Elegy

March 19, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.34 MB

By Joanna Klink

Our Side of the Creek

March 18, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.63 MB

By Yusef Komunyakaa

Border Wisdom

March 17, 2024 17:00 - 57 seconds - 983 KB

By Ahmad Almallah

The Minister of Culture Gets His Wish

March 16, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 587 KB

By Mark Strand

A Bird in Bishopswood

March 15, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MB

By John Tickhill Tr. by Eric Weiskott

Untitled Visual Poem

March 14, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 989 KB

By Tea Gerbeza

THE BAG OF SKUNK AND THE GHETTO BANK

March 13, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.23 MB

By Yahya Hassan

Nature Boy

March 12, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.19 MB

By Tomás Q. Morín

The Ash Bringer

March 11, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.35 MB

By W. S. Di Piero

Wedding-Ring

March 10, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.25 MB

By Denise Levertov

Hardware

March 08, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 672 KB

By Averill Curdy

Leviathan

March 07, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.01 MB

By George Oppen

The Orient

March 06, 2024 18:00 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MB

By Kimiko Hahn

Love Calls Us

March 05, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.58 MB

By Randall Mann

The Monster in the Lake

March 04, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.06 MB

By Martín Espada

From "Junk" [“‘Control’ by Janet Jackson is one of the greatest songs”]

March 03, 2024 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.13 MB

By Tommy Pico

The Mission

March 02, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1 MB

By Kevin Young

Katrina

March 01, 2024 18:00 - 35 seconds - 320 KB

By Patricia Smith

As a Child, You Worried You Would Be an Orphan

February 29, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.5 MB

By Charlotte Pence

Déjà Vu

February 28, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 772 KB

By Carmen Giménez Smith

A Negative of Snow

February 27, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 589 KB

By Chase Twichell

Familiars

February 26, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.44 MB

By John Kinsella

What I Carried

February 25, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MB

by Maggie Smith

The Name of that Silence is These Grasses in the Wind

February 24, 2024 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.1 MB

By JJJJJerome Ellis

The Rolling Saint

February 23, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 667 KB

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Air Plant

February 22, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 899 KB

by Hart Crane (read by Thomas Lux)

Nation of Domination

February 21, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.04 MB

By José Olivarez

The Sky Keeps Surprises

February 20, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.06 MB

By Ahmad Almallah

Rue

February 19, 2024 18:00 - 27 seconds - 311 KB

by Samuel Menashe (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)

The Sheets

February 18, 2024 18:00 - 37 seconds - 339 KB

A Short History of Silence

February 16, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.16 MB

By Jane Yeh

Dirge Without Music

February 15, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.52 MB

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Valentine's

February 14, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 537 KB

By Talvikki Ansel

Figure

February 13, 2024 18:00 - 59 seconds - 1000 KB

By Josephine Miles

Blues for Dante Alighieri

February 12, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 864 KB

By Kim Addonizio

Grand Expensive Vista

February 11, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.4 MB

By Andrew Hudgins

The Tree Frogs

February 10, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 787 KB

By William Logan

Lost Jewels

February 09, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.87 MB

By Megha Rao

Paper-Quilled Self-Portrait

February 08, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.07 MB

By Tea Gerbeza

Face Reading

February 07, 2024 18:00 - 55 seconds - 945 KB

By Travis Chi Wing Lau

The Comb-Bearers

February 06, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1010 KB

By Daniel Mark Epstein

The Age of Unreason

February 05, 2024 18:00 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MB

By Jennifer Chang

Clabber Milk Cornbread

February 04, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MB

By Diamond Forde

Trip to Delphi

February 03, 2024 18:00 - 3 minutes - 1.55 MB

By Alice Friman

Emily Dickinson

February 02, 2024 18:00 - 40 seconds - 716 KB

By Chad Bennett

Maroon

February 01, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.7 MB

By Kuhu Joshi

This Is a Billy Joe Harris Poem

January 31, 2024 18:00 - 51 seconds - 883 KB

By William J. Harris

Sonnet Bernadette Mayer

January 30, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.14 MB

By David Trinidad

Owls

January 29, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MB

By Liza Katz Duncan

Carpet Bomb

January 28, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.22 MB

By Kenyatta Rogers