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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Mirror Image

April 07, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 2.67 MB

by Jan Owen

Cold Valley

April 05, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 1.14 MB

By Cedar Sigo

Heart's Needle 2: Late April and you are three

April 04, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 666 KB

By W. D. Snodgrass

An Ancient Gesture

April 03, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 661 KB

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Wasps

April 02, 2020 06:00 - 19 seconds - 148 KB

By Ho Xuan Huong

Poem

April 01, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 895 KB

By Thomas McGrath

Written with a Pencil Found in Lorine Niedecker's Front Yard

March 30, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 574 KB

A Regret

March 29, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 586 KB

By David Trinidad

Space Station

March 28, 2020 06:00 - 4 minutes - 2.32 MB

By Tom Sleigh

Daffodils

March 27, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 1.39 MB

By Alicia Ostriker

Toy Boat

March 26, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 872 KB

By Ocean Vuong

Dyslexic

March 23, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 664 KB

By Winifred Hughes

Picking up Your Spilled Pills off the Floor Is Briefly Humbling

March 21, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 1.05 MB

By Ben Fama

Daynight, With Mountains Tied Inside

March 16, 2020 18:37 - 3 minutes - 2.99 MB

By Alice Fulton

Ark in the Field

March 16, 2020 18:29 - 1 minute - 570 KB

By Joyce Peseroff

Song for the Last Act

March 12, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 1.05 MB

By Louise Bogan

A Kind of Headless Guilt Emerges

March 09, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 692 KB

By Ana Božičević

Woman and Child

March 05, 2020 07:00 - 2 minutes - 2.54 MB

by Judith Beveridge

proportions of a giant in monument valley

March 04, 2020 07:00 - 2 minutes - 1.52 MB

by Judith Goldman

Subway Seethe

March 03, 2020 07:00 - 2 minutes - 1.04 MB

By J. Allyn Rosser

The Oracle

February 28, 2020 06:00 - 33 seconds - 357 KB

By Samuel Menashe

Progress Notes

February 27, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 2.51 MB

By Fady Joudah

Elegy for the Native Guard

February 26, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 1.23 MB

By Natasha Trethewey

Arion

February 25, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 1.19 MB

By David Wojahn

Late February

February 24, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 675 KB

By Ted Kooser

From Citizen: “You are in the dark, in the car...”

February 23, 2020 06:00 - 5 minutes - 3.94 MB

By Claudia Rankine

So This Is Nebraska

February 22, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 1.06 MB

By Ted Kooser

won't you celebrate with me

February 17, 2020 06:00 - 43 seconds - 389 KB

By Lucille Clifton

Atmosphere

February 15, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 515 KB

By A.V. Christie

"No longer if we'll get cancer but when"

February 13, 2020 06:00 - 36 seconds - 383 KB

By Melanie Braverman

Poem of the Day: Chant

February 09, 2020 06:00

By Tom Sleigh

Chant

February 09, 2020 06:00 - 4 minutes - 1.99 MB

By Tom Sleigh

Middle Passage

February 08, 2020 06:00 - 10 minutes - 4.96 MB

By Robert Hayden

Poem of the Day: Middle Passage

February 08, 2020 06:00

By Robert Hayden

Poem of the Day: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

February 07, 2020 06:00

By John Donne

Poem of the Day: What Jimmy Taught Me

February 06, 2020 06:00

By Harmony Holiday

Precision German Craftsmanship

February 05, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 793 KB

by Matthew Rohrer

Poem of the Day: Precision German Craftsmanship

February 05, 2020 06:00

by Matthew Rohrer

Poem of the Day: Soup and Jelly

February 04, 2020 06:00

by Fay Zwicky

Soup and Jelly

February 04, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 2.2 MB

by Fay Zwicky

Poem of the Day: The Great San Bernardino Pitch Party

February 03, 2020 06:00

By Callie Garnett

The Great San Bernardino Pitch Party

February 03, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 1.04 MB

By Callie Garnett

Poem of the Day: Ode to Black Skin

February 02, 2020 06:00

By Ashanti Anderson

Kronos: Father of the Year

February 01, 2020 06:00 - 52 seconds - 815 KB

by Douglas Kearney

Poem of the Day: Kronos: Father of the Year

February 01, 2020 06:00

by Douglas Kearney

Poem of the Day: Massacre Song Foundation

January 31, 2020 06:00

By Trevino L. Brings Plenty

Poem of the Day: Speak

January 30, 2020 06:00

by Phillip B. Williams

Speak

January 30, 2020 06:00 - 1 minute - 761 KB

by Phillip B. Williams

Treyf

January 29, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes - 2.26 MB

By sam sax

Poem of the Day: Treyf

January 29, 2020 06:00

By sam sax

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