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

Jagged Winter Trail Designs

August 20, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.3 MB

By Sy Hoahwah

Immigrant Blues

August 19, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.86 MB

By Li-Young Lee

Little God Origami

August 18, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 570 KB

by Stefi Weisburd

we acknowledge ourselves

August 16, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes - 7.97 MB

By Allison Akootchook Warden

The Burning Girl

August 14, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MB

By Mary Karr

Cinderblock

August 13, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 880 KB

by Chase Twichell

Vow

August 12, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.67 MB

By Diana Khoi Nguyen

Lines Written on a Nursery Wall

August 11, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 916 KB

By Sandra Simonds

Drift-Raft

August 10, 2022 17:00 - 30 seconds - 288 KB

By Atsuro Riley

Sonnets to Morpheus ["I know kung fu"]

August 09, 2022 17:00 - 53 seconds - 521 KB

by John Beer

Hand-Embroidered Mourning Piece for Clara Elisabeth Kriebel, 1779

August 08, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 787 KB

By Nance Van Winckel

After Ken Burns

August 07, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 920 KB

By Laura Kasischke

The Same City

August 06, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.25 MB

Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine

August 05, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 607 KB

By Karen An-Hwei Lee

La Prima Victoria

August 03, 2022 17:00 - 45 seconds - 454 KB

By Idra Novey

The Jar

August 01, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 832 KB

by A.F. Moritz (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)

Futility in Key West

July 31, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 628 KB

By Mark Strand

Lazy

July 30, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 763 KB

by David Yezzi

Then the War

July 29, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.62 MB

By Carl Phillips

Shell

July 28, 2022 17:00 - 52 seconds - 459 KB

By Harriet Brown

If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso

July 27, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes - 3.5 MB

By Gertrude Stein

my dream about time

July 26, 2022 17:00 - 30 seconds - 574 KB

by Lucille Clifton

The Avenues

July 25, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.34 MB

By David St. John

Tea at the Palaz of Hoon

July 24, 2022 17:00 - 59 seconds - 937 KB

by Wallace Stevens (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)

Domestic Violence

July 23, 2022 17:00 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MB

By Roger Reeves

A Version of Alcman’s (fl. 630 BCE) “Sleep” poem . . .

July 22, 2022 17:00 - 29 seconds - 566 KB

by John Kinsella

Photo of a Girl on a Beach

July 21, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 569 KB

By Carmen Giménez Smith

Letter to My Father

July 20, 2022 17:00 - 5 minutes - 5.34 MB

By Martín Espada

Pedestrian

July 19, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.05 MB

Mandela

July 18, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes - 856 KB

By Thomas Sayers Ellis

From "Junk" ["Wherever we go, needs feed and I find it harder and harder"]

July 17, 2022 17:00 - 4 minutes - 4.01 MB

By Tommy Pico

The Journey

July 05, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes - 1.47 MB

By Yvor Winters

América

July 04, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes - 3.22 MB

By Sarah María Medina

Bluebird

July 03, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 733 KB

By Joyce Peseroff

The Canonization

July 02, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.07 MB

By Jay Hopler

On the Subject of Doctors

July 01, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.38 MB

by James Tate

Hummingbirds

June 30, 2022 17:00 - 57 seconds - 999 KB

by Yvonne Murphy

Permanent Press

June 28, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 736 KB

By Alice Friman

Edgar Allan Poe Is Reached at the Baltimore Harbor by the Shadows That Pursue Him

June 27, 2022 17:00 - 4 minutes - 4.6 MB

By Fernando Valverde

Ode to the Tiniest Dessert Spoon in All Creation

June 25, 2022 17:00 - 3 minutes - 3.04 MB

By Karen An-hwei Lee

Anagrammer

June 24, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 923 KB

By Peter Pereira

Prologue—And Then She Owns You

June 23, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.35 MB

By Patricia Smith

Belonging as Consequence: On Poetry

June 21, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 683 KB

By Prageeta Sharma

New Endymion

June 19, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.09 MB

By W. S. Di Piero

Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens

June 17, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 1.41 MB

By Robert Duncan

Dawn of Man

June 16, 2022 17:00 - 2 minutes - 768 KB

By Max Ritvo

Memorandum

June 15, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 530 KB

By W.S. Merwin

Violence on the Internet

June 14, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.47 MB

By S.J. Fowler

this beginning may have always meant this end

June 13, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 2.34 MB

By Camille T. Dungy

Railway

June 12, 2022 17:00 - 1 minute - 769 KB

By Fred D'Aguiar

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