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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The Rolling Saint

February 23, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 667 KB

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Air Plant

February 22, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 899 KB

by Hart Crane (read by Thomas Lux)

Nation of Domination

February 21, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.04 MB

By José Olivarez

The Sky Keeps Surprises

February 20, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.06 MB

By Ahmad Almallah

Rue

February 19, 2024 18:00 - 27 seconds - 311 KB

by Samuel Menashe (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)

The Sheets

February 18, 2024 18:00 - 37 seconds - 339 KB

A Short History of Silence

February 16, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.16 MB

By Jane Yeh

Dirge Without Music

February 15, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.52 MB

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Valentine's

February 14, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 537 KB

By Talvikki Ansel

Figure

February 13, 2024 18:00 - 59 seconds - 1000 KB

By Josephine Miles

Blues for Dante Alighieri

February 12, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 864 KB

By Kim Addonizio

Grand Expensive Vista

February 11, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.4 MB

By Andrew Hudgins

The Tree Frogs

February 10, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 787 KB

By William Logan

Lost Jewels

February 09, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.87 MB

By Megha Rao

Paper-Quilled Self-Portrait

February 08, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.07 MB

By Tea Gerbeza

Face Reading

February 07, 2024 18:00 - 55 seconds - 945 KB

By Travis Chi Wing Lau

The Comb-Bearers

February 06, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1010 KB

By Daniel Mark Epstein

The Age of Unreason

February 05, 2024 18:00 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MB

By Jennifer Chang

Clabber Milk Cornbread

February 04, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MB

By Diamond Forde

Trip to Delphi

February 03, 2024 18:00 - 3 minutes - 1.55 MB

By Alice Friman

Emily Dickinson

February 02, 2024 18:00 - 40 seconds - 716 KB

By Chad Bennett

Maroon

February 01, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.7 MB

By Kuhu Joshi

This Is a Billy Joe Harris Poem

January 31, 2024 18:00 - 51 seconds - 883 KB

By William J. Harris

Sonnet Bernadette Mayer

January 30, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.14 MB

By David Trinidad

Owls

January 29, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MB

By Liza Katz Duncan

Carpet Bomb

January 28, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.22 MB

By Kenyatta Rogers

Erstwhile Harbinger Auspices

January 27, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 973 KB

By Matthew Zapruder

What I Learned From the Incredible Hulk

January 26, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 576 KB

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Superstition

January 25, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.34 MB

By Ashley August

Perihan

January 24, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.46 MB

By Sara Deniz Akant

Roses

January 23, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 745 KB

By Barbara Guest

Pathos of the Momentary Smile

January 22, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 776 KB

By Mark Halliday

Cowpunk

January 21, 2024 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.9 MB

By Diane Seuss

An Apparatus

January 20, 2024 18:00 - 5 minutes - 2.4 MB

by Keith Waldrop

Colorete

January 19, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.12 MB

By Eduardo Martinez-Leyva

Thanatos Machine

January 18, 2024 18:00 - 57 seconds - 550 KB

By Terese Svoboda

May

January 17, 2024 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.68 MB

By Edwina Attlee

It includes the butterfly and the rat, the shit

January 16, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 525 KB

By Marianne Boruch

The Gaffe

January 15, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.33 MB

by C.K. Williams

won't you celebrate with me

January 14, 2024 18:00 - 42 seconds - 389 KB

By Lucille Clifton

Dream 2

January 13, 2024 18:00 - 49 seconds - 600 KB

By Eileen Myles

Eagle Affirmation

January 12, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.48 MB

by John Kinsella

El Tigre Market

January 11, 2024 18:00 - 44 seconds - 752 KB

By Juan Delgado

Big Snow

January 10, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 718 KB

By Philip Gross

Pharmhouse

January 08, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.53 MB

By Brody Parrish Craig

The President Flies Over

January 07, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 742 KB

By Patricia Smith

I Thought a Tree Dying

January 06, 2024 18:00 - 57 seconds - 1000 KB

By Sandra Doller

Green Sees Things in Waves

January 05, 2024 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.19 MB

By August Kleinzahler

O God of Cuba

January 04, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.09 MB

By Jordan Pérez

Day 80: Dorchester

January 03, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.39 MB

By Stephen Lightbown

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