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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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

Travel Papers

January 18, 2021 17:09 - 5 minutes - 2.48 MB

By Carolyn Forche

A poem from From A Winter Notebook

January 17, 2021 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.19 MB

By Matvei Yankelevich

Atlas

January 16, 2021 19:13 - 36 seconds - 280 KB

By Kay Ryan

Fever

January 12, 2021 13:45 - 1 minute - 513 KB

. . . (In Exion)

December 16, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 863 KB

by Jennifer Scappettone

The Double Image

December 15, 2020 18:00 - 11 minutes - 5.37 MB

By Anne Sexton

A Short History of the Shadow

December 12, 2020 18:00 - 3 minutes - 1.55 MB

by Charles Wright

What Jimmy Taught Me

December 10, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.54 MB

By Harmony Holiday

Evidence

December 09, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 756 KB

The Present

December 07, 2020 18:00 - 58 seconds - 1020 KB

By Ryo Yamaguchi

Act III, Sc. 2

December 05, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 647 KB

by Jorie Graham

Mother Carey's Hen

December 04, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 605 KB

Resistance

December 03, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 1020 KB

By Traci Brimhall

My Chosen Landscape

November 25, 2020 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.56 MB

by P.K. Page (read by Melissa Severin)

What I Like

November 24, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.37 MB

By Alice Fulton

Barrels

November 23, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 647 KB

By Barbara Guest

We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had

November 21, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.11 MB

By Franny Choi

To Elsie

November 20, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 873 KB

By William Carlos Williams

A Story about Chicken Soup

November 19, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 985 KB

by Louis Simpson

Manuela

November 18, 2020 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.24 MB

By Juan Delgado

Our Revels Now Are Ended

November 17, 2020 18:00 - 52 seconds - 508 KB

By William Shakespeare

Nina's Blues

November 16, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 742 KB

For Charlie

November 15, 2020 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MB

By Ruben Quesada

Shirt

November 14, 2020 18:00 - 3 minutes - 1.96 MB

By Robert Pinsky

Kind of Blue

November 13, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 630 KB

by Lynn Powell

Poem to an Unnameable Man

November 11, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 801 KB

by Dorothea Lasky

Snake

November 10, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 717 KB

By Katie Peterson

Asperges Me

November 09, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 921 KB

By Timothy Murphy

Poison-Tester

November 08, 2020 18:00 - 54 seconds - 523 KB

By Shel Silverstein

kitchenette building

November 06, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 498 KB

By Gwendolyn Brooks

Carrying a Ladder

November 01, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 491 KB

By Kay Ryan

Fern Hill

October 31, 2020 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.53 MB

By Dylan Thomas

Freely Espousing

October 30, 2020 17:00 - 1 minute - 849 KB

By James Schuyler

Break of Day in the Trenches

October 29, 2020 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.32 MB

by Isaac Rosenberg

20

October 25, 2020 17:00 - 1 minute - 635 KB

By Barbara Guest

Rapture

October 20, 2020 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.2 MB

By Galway Kinnell

To the Western World

October 19, 2020 17:00 - 54 seconds - 523 KB

By Louis Simpson

Falling Leaves and Early Snow

October 16, 2020 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.19 MB

By Kenneth Rexroth

The Rain

October 15, 2020 17:00 - 55 seconds - 635 KB

by Robert Creeley

Compline

October 14, 2020 17:00 - 1 minute - 680 KB

By Philip Metres

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