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

Ye Elves of Hills, Brooks, Standing Lakes and Groves

April 01, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.01 MB

By William Shakespeare

Soften and Melt

March 31, 2021 17:00 - 22 seconds - 269 KB

By Alicia Ostriker

P R N D

March 29, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.25 MB

By Tyrone Williams

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

March 28, 2021 17:00 - 51 seconds - 500 KB

by Walt Whitman

Theories of Time and Space

March 27, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 923 KB

By Natasha Trethewey

During Wind and Rain

March 25, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 739 KB

By Thomas Hardy (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)

A Pedestrian

March 24, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 960 KB

by Amit Majmudar

Bath

March 23, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.32 MB

by Stuart Dybek

Blandeur

March 22, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 593 KB

By Kay Ryan

The Red Sea

March 21, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.33 MB

By Stephen Edgar

To Arielle and the Moon

March 20, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 779 KB

By David Trinidad

Late Melt

March 19, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.16 MB

By Melissa Broder

Life of Savage

March 18, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.02 MB

By Vijay Seshadri

Misgivings

March 17, 2021 17:00 - 1 minute - 713 KB

By William Matthews

Sleep

March 16, 2021 17:00 - 37 seconds - 391 KB

By Samuel Menashe

Postlude

March 15, 2021 17:00 - 58 seconds - 491 KB

By William Carlos Williams

Staying Power

March 14, 2021 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MB

By Jeanne Murray Walker

Roadrunner

March 13, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.9 MB

By André Naffis-Sahely

The Murder of William Remington

March 09, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 978 KB

By Howard Nemerov

Four Haiku

March 03, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.07 MB

by Kris Hemensley

Invictus

February 28, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 614 KB

By William Ernest Henley (read by Dana Ivey)

Overheard in the Herd

February 27, 2021 18:00 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MB

By Jorie Graham

Lightkick! 2

February 26, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.2 MB

By John Kinsella & Thurston Moore

Bitch Is a Word I Hear A Lot

February 25, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.56 MB

by Kim Parko

What Is Life

February 23, 2021 18:00 - 53 seconds - 459 KB

By Gregory Orr

If I Could Tell You

February 21, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 733 KB

By W.H. Auden

Gospel

February 20, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.04 MB

By Fleda Brown

Alteration Finds

February 19, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 964 KB

By Geoffrey Brock

Last Love

February 18, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 730 KB

By Mary Karr

Mapping the Genome

February 17, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 857 KB

A Ball Rolls on a Point

February 15, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 468 KB

by Kay Ryan

Keough Hall

February 14, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.48 MB

By Francisco Aragón

White Buttons

February 13, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.37 MB

By Mary Ruefle

Nox Borealis

February 11, 2021 18:00 - 51 seconds - 501 KB

By Campbell McGrath

April

February 10, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 810 KB

By Alicia Ostriker

Instead of Bad News about a Person I Love

February 09, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.71 MB

by Jack Underwood

The Trans Haggadah Companion

February 08, 2021 18:00 - 29 seconds - 534 KB

By Bev Yockelson

Two Nudes

February 07, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 441 KB

By Mary Jo Bang

Dream of Ink Brush Calligraphy

February 06, 2021 18:00 - 53 seconds - 512 KB

By Karen An-Hwei Lee

Harold and the Purple Crayon

February 05, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.42 MB

By D. Gilson

From "Mankindness"

February 04, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 931 KB

by Christina Davis

Traveling Light

February 02, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutes - 5.22 MB

By Alice Fulton

Totem Poem [If every step taken is a step well-lived]

February 01, 2021 18:00 - 6 minutes - 5.69 MB

by Luke Davies

The Doors

January 31, 2021 18:00 - 4 minutes - 2.31 MB

by David St. John

Orange Blood

January 29, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.32 MB

By David Trinidad

The Visible World

January 26, 2021 11:39 - 6 minutes - 3.05 MB

by Jorie Graham

Weighing Light

January 25, 2021 12:18 - 1 minute - 905 KB

By Geoffrey Brock

Eating Chocolate Ice Cream: Reading Mayakovsky

January 21, 2021 13:49 - 2 minutes - 1.15 MB

By Barbara Guest

Psalm: 5

January 20, 2021 14:50 - 40 seconds - 408 KB

by Mark Jarman

Do-rag

January 19, 2021 12:18 - 1 minute - 875 KB

by Phillip B. Williams

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