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

For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut

June 09, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.59 MB

By Hanif Abdurraqib

Entire Known World So Far

June 08, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.42 MB

By Carl Phillips

Lime

June 07, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 557 KB

By Yusef Komunyakaa

The Sun Rising

June 06, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.45 MB

John Donne (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)

Monsoon Poem

June 05, 2021 17:00 - 4 minutes - 4.03 MB

By Tishani Doshi

A Phonecall from Frank O'Hara

June 04, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.46 MB

By Anne Waldman

How to Love Bats

June 03, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 3.17 MB

by Judith Beveridge

Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight

June 02, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 930 KB

by Yvor Winters

Forgetting

May 31, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.39 MB

By Joy Ladin

[I have become wealthy in a foreign land]

May 29, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.49 MB

By Johannes Göransson

Harness

May 28, 2021 17:00 - 21 seconds - 417 KB

By Jane Hirshfield

An hour is not a house

May 27, 2021 17:00 - 38 seconds - 679 KB

By Jane Hirshfield

Red Ghazal

May 26, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 977 KB

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Feather in Bas-Relief

May 25, 2021 17:00 - 57 seconds - 445 KB

By Allen Edwin Butt

Portrait of Christian Berard

May 21, 2021 17:00 - 51 seconds - 840 KB

By Gertrude Stein

Queerodactyl

May 20, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MB

By Roy G. Guzmán

Saguaros

May 19, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.58 MB

By Javier Zamora

Riches

May 17, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 632 KB

by Amit Majmudar

fire

May 16, 2021 17:00 - 5 minutes - 2.6 MB

By Nick Flynn

I Wanna Be Ur Lover (1979)

May 13, 2021 17:00 - 54 seconds - 898 KB

By Douglas Kearney

Captains in Captivity

May 12, 2021 17:00 - 58 seconds - 457 KB

By Seth Abramson

I Remember Galileo

May 11, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.08 MB

By Gerald Stern

Rehearsal

May 09, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 847 KB

by Sara Peters

Wide Awake in a Field of Deadbolts

May 08, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.25 MB

By Nick Twemlow

Headless Mama Returns (Xmas ’18 Redux)

May 07, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.46 MB

By Jennifer Givhan

Ode to Autocorrect

May 06, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.61 MB

By Martha Silano

Nomad Exquisite

May 05, 2021 17:00 - 54 seconds - 458 KB

by Wallace Stevens

Father, in Drawer

May 04, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.14 MB

By Lucie Brock-Broido

Scrabble with Matthews

May 03, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.54 MB

The Pain Reliever

May 01, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.88 MB

By Carrie Olivia Adams

What's Written on the Body

April 30, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.38 MB

By Peter Pereira

My Mother's God

April 29, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.47 MB

by Geoff Page

Loving in Truth

April 28, 2021 17:00 - 52 seconds - 908 KB

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

She Lived

April 26, 2021 17:00 - 29 seconds - 331 KB

By Lucille Clifton

On Rebellion

April 25, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.46 MB

By Prageeta Sharma

Where Somebody Died

April 24, 2021 17:00 - 58 seconds - 512 KB

by Eleanor Ross Taylor

Samurai Song

April 23, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 627 KB

by Robert Pinsky

Aristotle

April 22, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.66 MB

By Billy Collins

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

April 21, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.16 MB

By John Donne

This Most Perfect Hill

April 18, 2021 17:00 - 48 seconds - 471 KB

by Lisa Jarnot

My Last Duchess

April 16, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.89 MB

At the Un-national Monument along the Canadian Border

April 15, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 871 KB

Death

April 12, 2021 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.62 MB

By Donald Revell

Essay on Craft

April 09, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.6 MB

By Ocean Vuong

Chatty Cathy Villanelle

April 08, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.61 MB

by David Trinidad

Rhapsody

April 07, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 869 KB

By David St. John

Here

April 05, 2021 17:00 - 20 seconds - 316 KB

by Samuel Menashe (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)

My Species

April 04, 2021 17:00 - 27 seconds - 518 KB

By Jane Hirshfield

The Obsoletion of a Language

April 03, 2021 17:00 - 21 seconds - 265 KB

By Kay Ryan

Reverie in Open Air

April 02, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 541 KB

By Rita Dove

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