Audio Poem of the Day

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

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Episodes

The End of Landscape

April 14, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.04 MB

By Randall Mann

Declaration

April 13, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.13 MB

By Tracy K. Smith

The Future Is Black as A Pocket

April 12, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 606 KB

By Krista Franklin

How We Heard the Name

April 11, 2024 17:00 - 46 seconds - 461 KB

By Alan Dugan

The Tyger

April 10, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 670 KB

By William Blake (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)

Matisse, Too

April 09, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 638 KB

The Mauve Notebook

April 08, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.38 MB

By John Ashbery

To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street

April 07, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.03 MB

By Franny Choi

War the War

April 06, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.15 MB

by Jack Underwood

Walking Away

April 05, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.42 MB

By Cecil Day-Lewis

Lost in the Milky Way

April 04, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.19 MB

By Linda Hogan

nail hard

April 03, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.36 MB

By Samiya Bashir

Dear Lacuna, Dear Lard:

April 02, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.08 MB

by Paisley Rekdal

Dworzec

April 01, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.59 MB

By Emily Pérez

Living in the body

March 31, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 792 KB

By Joyce Sutphen

Pearl

March 30, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.43 MB

By Wendy Lotterman

It’s Crude

March 29, 2024 17:00 - 3 minutes - 3.16 MB

By JT Lachausse

The Lucky Ones

March 28, 2024 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MB

By Gabrielle Bates

The Invisible Birds of Central America

March 27, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 680 KB

By Craig Arnold

Interlude

March 26, 2024 17:00 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MB

By Denise Leto

Rizal upon Hearing David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”

March 25, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.56 MB

By Eugene Gloria

Hinotama [The ball of light that bounced]

March 24, 2024 17:00 - 46 seconds - 803 KB

By Brandon Shimoda

In the Green Morning, Now, Once More

March 23, 2024 17:00 - 34 seconds - 544 KB

By Delmore Schwartz

Seeing It Through

March 22, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 781 KB

by Alice Friman

Of All Things

March 21, 2024 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.26 MB

By Isabel Galleymore

Twelve in Yellow-Weed at the Edge

March 20, 2024 17:00 - 36 seconds - 449 KB

By Cynthia Cruz

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

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