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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American Poetry

February 15, 2022 18:00 - 37 seconds - 389 KB

by Louis Simpson

from Doctor Drink, #1

February 14, 2022 18:00 - 41 seconds - 358 KB

by J. V. Cunningham

Bright Pittsburgh Morning

February 11, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.32 MB

by Maurice Kilwein Guevara

Falling Leaves and Early Snow

February 10, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.81 MB

By Kenneth Rexroth

Why Poetry Cannot Be Skimmed

February 09, 2022 18:00 - 3 minutes - 1.64 MB

By Jessica Jopp

Inheriting My Grandmother's Nightmare

February 08, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.15 MB

By Anne Stevenson

Outcome

February 07, 2022 18:00 - 50 seconds - 436 KB

By Anne Rouse

Once the World Was Perfect

February 06, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.23 MB

By Joy Harjo

Autism Screening Questionnaire — Speech and Language Delay

February 05, 2022 18:00 - 6 minutes - 5.95 MB

By Oliver de la Paz

Song of the Andoumboulou: 55

February 04, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.12 MB

by Nathaniel Mackey

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods

February 03, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.71 MB

By Tishani Doshi

Talking Blues

February 02, 2022 18:00 - 54 seconds - 520 KB

By Calvin Forbes

Mushrooms

February 01, 2022 18:00 - 25 seconds - 295 KB

by Laura Kasischke

The End

January 30, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 579 KB

By Mark Strand

praise song

January 29, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.31 MB

by Nate Marshall

Prelude

January 27, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1000 KB

By A.E. Stallings

Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain

January 26, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 747 KB

By Delmore Schwartz

how many of us have them?

January 25, 2022 18:00 - 5 minutes - 4.98 MB

By Danez Smith

Vapor Wake

January 24, 2022 18:00 - 56 seconds - 963 KB

by Mary Ruefle

Flatirons

January 23, 2022 18:00 - 4 minutes - 2.2 MB

by David Yezzi

How to Triumph Like a Girl

January 22, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1 MB

By Ada Limón

Animal Unfit for Living Unmolested

January 21, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.51 MB

By Ginger Ko

The Tongue

January 20, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 969 KB

By Tommye Blount

The Fall of 1992

January 19, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 948 KB

By Randall Mann

15 Years of Paris

January 18, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.27 MB

By Katy Bohinc

Fabliau of Florida

January 16, 2022 18:00 - 48 seconds - 482 KB

by Wallace Stevens

Early Elegy: Smallpox

January 15, 2022 18:00 - 34 seconds - 269 KB

By Claudia Emerson

Dancing with Strom

January 14, 2022 18:00 - 9 minutes - 8.87 MB

Striplings

January 13, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.4 MB

By Atsuro Riley

Salvation

January 12, 2022 18:00 - 55 seconds - 476 KB

By Stephen Dunn

Kitchen Fable

January 09, 2022 18:00 - 39 seconds - 358 KB

By Eleanor Ross Taylor

[Down from another planet they have settled to mend]

January 08, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 536 KB

By Josephine Miles

Of the Divine as Absence and Single Letter

January 07, 2022 18:00 - 39 seconds - 401 KB

By Idra Novey

A Night at the Opera

January 06, 2022 18:00 - 12 seconds - 308 KB

By D. A. Powell

Family

January 05, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 566 KB

By Josephine Miles

Happiness

January 04, 2022 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.13 MB

By Paisley Rekdal

My Mother Contemplating Her Gun

January 02, 2022 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.29 MB

by Nick Flynn

Three Dreams of Korea: Notes on Adoption

January 01, 2022 18:00 - 3 minutes - 1.74 MB

By Lee Herrick

Seventeen Funerals

December 31, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.85 MB

By Richard Blanco

The Evening Star

December 30, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.14 MB

By Louise Glück

Perhaps the World Ends Here

December 29, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.57 MB

By Joy Harjo

from "Akiba"

December 27, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutes - 2.77 MB

by Muriel Rukeyser

My California

December 25, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.21 MB

By Lee Herrick

What's Left

December 24, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 742 KB

By W.S. Di Piero

Last Night

December 23, 2021 18:00 - 50 seconds - 491 KB

by Jill Osier

Song: To Celia

December 22, 2021 18:00 - 49 seconds - 441 KB

By Ben Jonson (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)

Map to the Stars

December 21, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 716 KB

by Adrian Matejka

Blind Boone’s Vision

December 20, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MB

By Tyehimba Jess

Macular Hole

December 19, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.06 MB

By Catherine Wagner

Crown

December 18, 2021 18:00 - 54 seconds - 424 KB

By Kay Ryan

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

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