Audio Poem of the Day

1,134 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★ - 321 ratings

Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day.

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Episodes

Three Love Chants

January 02, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.36 MB

By Rachel Tzvia Back

The Girl with Bees in Her Hair

January 01, 2024 18:00 - 3 minutes - 1.58 MB

By Eleanor Wilner

Black Site (Exhibit I)

December 31, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1 MB

By Philip Metres

Comedy with Flutes

December 30, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.75 MB

By Patricia Spears Jones

Song Beside the Barn Wall

December 29, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 759 KB

By Alice Templeton

Clearing the Forest, This Precious Coupling

December 28, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.9 MB

By Haki R Madhubuti

The Damned

December 27, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 626 KB

By Roddy Lumsden

Open Openly

December 26, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.11 MB

By Alan Felsenthal

The Hypnotist's Daughter

December 25, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.22 MB

By Lisa Olstein

Reunion

December 24, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.83 MB

By Megan Fernandes

ABC for Refugees

December 23, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.44 MB

By Monica Sok

The signals come in from the dark

December 22, 2023 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.22 MB

By Daniela Danz Tr. by Monika Cassel

“I bring forth voids”

December 21, 2023 18:00 - 28 seconds - 521 KB

By Beatriz Miralles de Imperial

In the Basement of the Goodwill Store

December 20, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 789 KB

By Ted Kooser

To Judgment: An Assay

December 19, 2023 18:00 - 3 minutes - 1.53 MB

By Jane Hirshfield

Crush 1999

December 18, 2023 18:00 - 57 seconds - 997 KB

By Peter Mason

[Immigration Headline]

December 17, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.31 MB

By Javier Zamora

In the Next Next World

December 16, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.53 MB

By Gillian Conoley

Ark

December 15, 2023 18:00 - 45 seconds - 790 KB

By Enrique S. Villasis Tr. by Bernard Kean Capinpin

Ode to Patrick Swayze

December 14, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.49 MB

By Tishani Doshi

Monster

December 13, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.25 MB

By Jason Irwin

A Fable

December 12, 2023 18:00 - 27 seconds - 312 KB

by Anna Maria Hong

The Window, at the Moment of Flame

December 11, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 631 KB

By Alicia Ostriker

Invocation to Convince a Baby Already Twelve Days Overdue to Come Out

December 10, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 939 KB

By Jeanne Murray Walker

Arequipa

December 09, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.35 MB

By Ben Okri

How Much?

December 08, 2023 18:00 - 33 seconds - 602 KB

By Carl Sandburg

Lilacs on my Birthday

December 07, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 534 KB

By Joyce Peseroff

Tarp

December 06, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 981 KB

By Rick Barot

Erysichthon

December 05, 2023 18:00 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MB

By Ted Hughes Read by Keyne Cheshire

Beginnings

December 04, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.39 MB

By Jacqueline Johnson

Everything

December 03, 2023 18:00 - 47 seconds - 820 KB

By Fanny Howe

From “The Herald’s Wand”

December 02, 2023 18:00 - 8 minutes - 8.18 MB

By Li Young Lee

Renascence

December 01, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.47 MB

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

So Many Books, So Little Time

November 30, 2023 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.74 MB

By Haki R Madhubuti

Snow

November 29, 2023 18:00 - 19 seconds - 252 KB

By Frederick Seidel

Sappho 58

November 28, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.21 MB

By Jameson Fitzpatrick

Wilderness

November 27, 2023 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.86 MB

By Carl Sandburg

Lady Birds’ Evening Meetings

November 26, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.59 MB

By Tacey M. Atsitty

Conversation 12: On Hieroglyphs

November 25, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.39 MB

by Rosmarie Waldrop

Be More Like Björk

November 24, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.6 MB

By Camille Guthrie

An Old Woman's Painting

November 23, 2023 18:00 - 35 seconds - 374 KB

By Lynn Emanuel

At a Standstill

November 22, 2023 18:00 - 56 seconds - 538 KB

By Samuel Menashe

"Guard the Jade Pass"

November 21, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.48 MB

By Kimiko Hahn

Frederick Douglass

November 20, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 714 KB

By Robert Hayden

From a Daybook

November 19, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 748 KB

By David St. John

Love Poem: Tulsidas

November 10, 2023 18:00 - 39 seconds - 704 KB

By Timothy Liu

Irish Goodbye

November 09, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.31 MB

By Kimberly Casey

At the Justice Department November 15, 1969

November 08, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute - 1.43 MB

By Denise Levertov

The Little Ice Age

November 07, 2023 18:00 - 57 seconds - 647 KB

By Kathy Nilsson

wolf dream moon

November 06, 2023 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.62 MB

By Gaia Thomas

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