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Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination Before a Diagnosis Can Be Determined

October 2nd, 2023

2:25

By torrin a. greathouse

Two Trees

October 1st, 2023

3:37

By Joanna Klink

Screenplay

September 30th, 2023

2:12

By Harryette Mullen

Lomita, California

September 29th, 2023

0:40

By Diana Marie Delgado

The Great Deceiver

September 28th, 2023

1:42

By Brian Lucas

The Walrus and the Carpenter

September 27th, 2023

4:36

By Lewis Carroll

Sun and Fun

September 26th, 2023

1:39

By John Betjeman

Thanking Master Zhang with a Poem (English)

September 25th, 2023

0:49

By Wang Wei

Tr. by Susan Wan Dolling

Déjà Vu

September 24th, 2023

1:33

By Carmen Giménez Smith

When You’re Seventeen Everything Sounds like a Secret Anthem to Doom

September 23rd, 2023

3:24

By Karyna McGlynn

Red Parade

September 22nd, 2023

1:49

By David Trinidad

Foreign Body

September 21st, 2023

2:09

by Kimiko Hahn

Afrofuturism (Blanche says, “Meh”)

September 20th, 2023

1:36

by Douglas Kearney

Because You’re Queer

September 19th, 2023

2:43

By Aaron Smith

Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing

September 18th, 2023

1:30

By Adam Wolfond

My Galley, Charged With Forgetfulness

September 17th, 2023

1:31

by Thomas Wyatt

The Obscenity Prayer

September 16th, 2023

0:36

By Mary Karr

To What You Said

September 15th, 2023

1:13

By Walt Whitman

The Victorian on Edge

September 14th, 2023

0:39

By Sandra Simonds

Happy Campus

September 13th, 2023

2:13

By Rodrigo Toscano

School of Unhabituation

September 12th, 2023

1:28

By Miron Białoszewski
Tr. by Cavanagh Clare

Mary

September 11th, 2023

3:17

By William Blake

Perhaps I Am a Fugitive of Empathy

September 10th, 2023

1:47

By Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul

Song-Riddle: Asian Box Turtle

September 9th, 2023

0:55

By Karen An-hwei Lee

Poem with Human Intelligence

September 8th, 2023

1:10

By J Estanislao Lopez

The Lucky Ones

September 7th, 2023

2:08

By Gabrielle Bates

Open Openly

September 6th, 2023

2:11

By Alan Felsenthal

Umpaowastewin

September 5th, 2023

1:18

by Margaret Noodin

Delection Even

September 4th, 2023

2:48

by Jennifer Scappettone

Love Looks Not with the Eyes

September 3rd, 2023

1:39

By William Shakespeare

Our People I

September 2nd, 2023

1:09

By CM Burroughs

Nap Taker

September 1st, 2023

2:22

By Shel Silverstein

Epitaph as My Mother’s Daughter

August 31st, 2023

0:51

By Kaitlin Rizzo

Lines Composed upon Changing a Diaper

August 30th, 2023

1:45

By Jaswinder Bolina

Remember

August 29th, 2023

0:59

By Christina Rossetti

Golden Hour

August 28th, 2023

0:51

By Huan He

On the Great Atlantic Rainway

August 27th, 2023

2:11

By Kenneth Koch

I Covered a Great Distance Without Effort

August 26th, 2023

1:53

by Jeffrey Jullich

Anniversary

August 25th, 2023

2:51

By Marie Ponsot

Conversion Comedy

August 24th, 2023

3:15

by Ange Mlinko

Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes

August 23rd, 2023

1:09

By William Shakespeare

Sympathetic Magpies

August 22nd, 2023

0:50

By William J. Harris

A Worldly Country

August 21st, 2023

2:10

by John Ashbery

After Someone’s Death

August 20th, 2023

0:57

By Tomas Tranströmer
Tr. by Patty Crane

The Ripples Are Ongoing Acts

August 19th, 2023

0:43

By Adam Wolfond

“Fever your sex is a crab”

August 18th, 2023

0:45

By Joyce Mansour

Tr. by Emilie Moorhouse

Utang Na Loob

August 17th, 2023

3:42

By Michelle Peñaloza

The Dream of a Fire Engine

August 16th, 2023

0:39

By Kimiko Hahn

Advice to the Able-Bodied Poet Entering the Disability Poetics Workshop

August 15th, 2023

7:23

By Liv Mammone

Korean Mums

August 14th, 2023

2:02

By James Schuyler

If The Sun Comes Up

August 13th, 2023

2:24

By Zoe Stoller

salat to be read from right to left

August 12th, 2023

1:28

By Dujie Tahat

Tar Kettle on Prince Street

August 11th, 2023

0:42

by Jesse Jennison (read by Barbara Rosenblatt)

Hood Aesthetic

August 10th, 2023

1:24

By Amy Alvarez

River of Milk

August 9th, 2023

2:26

By Kaveh Akbar

The Bitterness of Children

August 8th, 2023

0:57

by Thomas Lux

Land's End

August 7th, 2023

0:45

By Weldon Kees

I’m rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time

August 6th, 2023

0:55

By Arianna Monet

The Demon

August 5th, 2023

2:59

By Jennifer Firestone

A Feeling Right Before the Feeling

August 4th, 2023

1:25

By Brenda Hillman

The Lie

August 3rd, 2023

1:05

By Anne Waldman

Among the Gorgons

August 2nd, 2023

1:18

By Michelle Boisseau

A Gift for You

August 1st, 2023

1:53

By Eileen Myles

Golden Hour

July 31st, 2023

1:32

By Kimberly Casey

Sissieretta Jones

July 30th, 2023

1:24

By Tyehimba Jess

The Fall of 1992

July 29th, 2023

1:48

By Randall Mann

Morning

July 28th, 2023

0:54

By Billy Collins

Evening Constitutional

July 27th, 2023

0:58

By Rita Dove

Chase Scene

July 26th, 2023

1:13

By Gabriel Ojeda-Sague

James Dean with Pig

July 25th, 2023

1:37

By sam sax

There She Is

July 24th, 2023

1:23

By Linda Gregg

All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems

July 23rd, 2023

2:14

By Michelle Peñaloza

Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time

July 22nd, 2023

1:34

By William Shakespeare

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin

July 21st, 2023

0:59

By Terrance Hayes

Eccentric Votive Offering

July 20th, 2023

2:54

By Bruce Beasley

Beautiful Habit

July 19th, 2023

2:35

By Tom Raworth

Talk to Strangers

July 18th, 2023

0:22

By D.A. Powell

Filling Station

July 17th, 2023

1:54

By Elizabeth Bishop

Triple Sonnet for Black Hair

July 16th, 2023

2:08

By Dorothy Chan

Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

July 15th, 2023

1:07

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (read by Laura Marks)

Emergence

July 14th, 2023

0:33

By Manny Loley

"Wreck" and "rise above"

July 13th, 2023

2:17

By Eleanor Wilner

A Story about Chicken Soup

July 12th, 2023

1:53

by Louis Simpson

For the Taking

July 11th, 2023

0:54

By Sophie Cabot Black

Death Style 8.17.20

July 10th, 2023

3:28

By Joyelle McSweeney

Perfect Pitch

July 9th, 2023

1:48

by Peter Pereira

From “Nudos”

July 8th, 2023

0:57

By Teresa Soto

Let Me Count the Waves

July 7th, 2023

2:47

By Sandra Beasley

Ramadan

July 6th, 2023

1:12

By Kazim Ali

Measure

July 5th, 2023

0:48

by Robert Hass

Cape Song

July 4th, 2023

3:16

By Michael Metivier

Sukdu’a

July 3rd, 2023

6:42

By Annie Wenstrup

The Girl with Bees in Her Hair

July 2nd, 2023

3:13

By Eleanor Wilner

Prayer for the Mutilated World

July 1st, 2023

2:02

By sam sax

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

June 30th, 2023

5:42

By Claudia Rankine

Bedtime Story

June 29th, 2023

1:18

By Charles Wright

Sweeping the States

June 28th, 2023

0:54

by Jacob Saenz

Growing a Bear

June 27th, 2023

3:27

by Hannah Gamble

Robinson

June 26th, 2023

1:15

By Weldon Kees

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