Audio Poem of the Day

1,193 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 11 hours ago - ★★★★ - 331 ratings

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

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Episodes

This song

July 13, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.18 MB

By Kacper Batczak Tr. by Mark Tardi

Loving the “I”

July 12, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.23 MB

By Kim Moore

I’m Stepping Up in Singing Sandals, No Use For

July 11, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.1 MB

By Bridget Talone

Poisonwell Diaries: The Ghost

July 10, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.9 MB

By Shanta Lee

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin

July 09, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.19 MB

By Terrance Hayes

Story Problem

July 08, 2024 17:00 - 58 seconds - 991 KB

By Cole Swensen

Avenue of Plane Trees

July 07, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.3 MB

By Jodie Hollander

The Impossible Replication of Desire

July 06, 2024 17:00 - 51 seconds - 448 KB

By Lee Herrick

Walking With My Father

July 05, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.64 MB

By Linda Hogan

American Love Song

July 04, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.37 MB

By Lachlan Chu

Chimera (Excerpt 2)

July 03, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 633 KB

By Averill Curdy

In Eight Parts

July 02, 2024 17:00 - 7 minutes - 3.68 MB

by Paul Killebrew

Villanelle with a Line Borrowed from Bishop

July 01, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.48 MB

By Kimiko Hahn

Hour

June 30, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 522 KB

Blessed Black

June 29, 2024 17:00 - 4 minutes - 4.01 MB

By Shanta Lee

The Wind

June 28, 2024 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.77 MB

By Dafydd Ap Gwilym (translated by Gwyneth Lewis)

Advice to a Prophet

June 27, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MB

By Richard Wilbur

To the Ancient Order of Legs

June 26, 2024 17:00 - 55 seconds - 930 KB

By W.S. Merwin

Oneirology

June 25, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.25 MB

By Jordan Hamel

Doxorubicin: Infusion

June 24, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.72 MB

By Laura Paul Watson

[accumulation of land]

June 23, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.36 MB

by Myung Mi Kim

Slow Dreams

June 22, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.88 MB

By Robert Wrigley

Antique

June 20, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.07 MB

by Robert Pinsky

The Piano Speaks

June 19, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 729 KB

By Sandra Beasley

At the Vietnam Center and Archive

June 17, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.12 MB

By Hai-Dang Phan

The Rain-Streaked Avenues of Central Queens

June 16, 2024 17:00 - 54 seconds - 526 KB

by Dennis Nurkse

Red Sea

June 14, 2024 17:00 - 49 seconds - 882 KB

By Daniel Poppick

Manifesto, or Ars Poetica #2

June 13, 2024 17:00 - 4 minutes - 4 MB

By Krista Franklin

Things to Do with a Monster

June 12, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.28 MB

By Tacey M. Atsitty

Torn Coat

June 11, 2024 17:00 - 53 seconds - 932 KB

By Gerald Stern

Rendezvous

June 10, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.57 MB

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Contrapuntal Opening with a Line from Millay

June 09, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.23 MB

By Kimiko Hahn

Two Guardians

June 08, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.76 MB

By Roberto Tejada

gravity furnace

June 07, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.26 MB

By francine j. harris

Bedtime Story

June 06, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 646 KB

By Charles Wright

The Pear

June 05, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 724 KB

By Jane Hirshfield

Love Song

June 04, 2024 17:00 - 48 seconds - 427 KB

by Mary Carolyn Davies

Places Our People Are Martyred for the Last Time

June 03, 2024 17:00 - 51 seconds - 879 KB

By Troy Osaki

Tracking

June 02, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.11 MB

By Eleanor Wilner

Crip vs. Crip

June 01, 2024 17:00 - 4 minutes - 4.12 MB

By Walela Nehanda

Beautiful Woman

May 31, 2024 17:00 - 12 seconds - 248 KB

By A. R. Ammons

Applesauce

May 30, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 747 KB

By Ted Kooser

Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d”

May 29, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.2 MB

By Kimiko Hahn

midnight

May 28, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.44 MB

By Toni Giselle Stuart

I Walked in the House

May 27, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.34 MB

By Catherine Wagner

Silent Spread

May 26, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.83 MB

By S. J. Fowler

Massacre Song Foundation

May 25, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.69 MB

By Trevino L. Brings Plenty

And

May 24, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.06 MB

By Robert Fernandez

The Gospel of Mary

May 23, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.33 MB

By Mary Jo Bang

[anyone lived in a pretty how town]

May 22, 2024 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.82 MB

By E.E. Cummings

Books

A Passage to India

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A Passage To India

1 Episode

A Passage to India: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

1 Episode