Audio Poem of the Day

1,193 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★ - 331 ratings

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

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Episodes

Adam Waking

April 17, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 680 KB

By Katie Peterson

Scientific Method

April 16, 2022 17:00 - 4 minutes - 4.02 MB

By Paul Tran

Wild Nights! Wild Nights!

April 15, 2022 17:00 - 33 seconds - 356 KB

By Emily Dickinson

Canary

April 14, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.19 MB

By Rita Dove

Theories of the Soul

April 12, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.75 MB

By Karen An-hwei Lee

Stone Canyon Nocturne

April 10, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 529 KB

by Charles Wright

All my friends are homeless

April 09, 2022 17:00 - 52 seconds - 502 KB

By Samuel Menashe

Fifi

April 08, 2022 17:00 - 15 seconds - 215 KB

By Linda Kunhardt

Everything Good Between Men and Women

April 05, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 926 KB

Providence

April 03, 2022 17:00 - 55 seconds - 528 KB

By Natasha Trethewey

Floating Trees

April 02, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.09 MB

By C.D. Wright

Blues Alabama

April 01, 2022 17:00 - 43 seconds - 677 KB

by Michael S. Harper (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)

Women in Labor

March 31, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 808 KB

by Mary Ruefle

Family Dollar

March 30, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.42 MB

By Hannah Brooks-Motl

The Progress of the Soul

March 28, 2022 17:00 - 46 seconds - 398 KB

By Thomas McGrath

Adult Acne

March 27, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 560 KB

By Elaine Kahn

The Museum of Stones

March 26, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.62 MB

By Carolyn Forché

Unmediated experience

March 25, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.08 MB

By Bob Hicok

The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books

March 23, 2022 17:00 - 40 seconds - 414 KB

By Alice Notley

Montana Pastoral

March 22, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 556 KB

By J. V. Cunningham

Tonight

March 21, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.06 MB

Agha Shahid Ali (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)

from "Field Notes"

March 20, 2022 17:00 - 49 seconds - 485 KB

By Brooklyn Copeland

Unit of Measure

March 19, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.66 MB

By Sandra Beasley

Song of a Hopeful Heart

March 18, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 748 KB

By Dorothy Parker

Elsewhere Mon Amour

March 17, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 722 KB

by Nick Flynn

Swan

March 16, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 618 KB

By Albert Goldbarth

I have to tell you

March 15, 2022 17:00 - 18 seconds - 242 KB

By Dorothea Grossman

During the War

March 13, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.02 MB

By Philip Levine

The One Remaining Star

March 12, 2022 18:00 - 40 seconds - 357 KB

Love Train

March 11, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.06 MB

By Tomás Q. Morín

Beulah Peel Me a Grape

March 10, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.09 MB

By Patricia Spears Jones

Yellow Dress

March 09, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 818 KB

By Amy Beeder

Infanta Marina

March 08, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 570 KB

by Wallace Stevens

The Last Time I Slept in This Bed

March 07, 2022 18:00 - 38 seconds - 398 KB

by Sara Peters

The Ambassador of the Interior Has a Talking to With the Minister of the Cabinet of Vengeance

March 06, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.33 MB

By Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

$$$Expensive Magic$$$

March 05, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.2 MB

by Cedar Sigo

The Beautiful Animal

March 04, 2022 18:00 - 57 seconds - 631 KB

by Geoffrey Brock

Boil

March 03, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 870 KB

By Alicia Ostriker

Poetry Failure

March 02, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.06 MB

By Mark Halliday

Know No Name

March 01, 2022 18:00 - 46 seconds - 834 KB

By Kazim Ali

The Illiterate

February 28, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 875 KB

by William Meredith

Sotto Voce

February 27, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 763 KB

The Phrases of the Moon

February 26, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.33 MB

By Andrew Joron

Nothing

February 25, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 535 KB

By Connie Wanek

Man in Space

February 24, 2022 18:00 - 47 seconds - 372 KB

By Billy Collins

A Blind Woman

February 23, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 646 KB

By Ted Kooser

You Are Old, Father William

February 22, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 888 KB

By Lewis Carroll

Prodigy

February 19, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 807 KB

By Charles Simic

Ramadan

February 18, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.18 MB

By Kazim Ali

“Majesty”

February 16, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.13 MB

by Keith Waldrop

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