Audio Poem of the Day

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Sanctuary

March 27th, 2023

1:26

By Donika Kelly

Revelator (Excerpt 2)

March 26th, 2023

1:53

By Ron Silliman

[29. ARITHMETICAL]

March 25th, 2023

2:37

By Nam Le

Nation of Domination

March 24th, 2023

1:03

By José Olivarez

Myths of the Disappearance

March 23rd, 2023

1:08

by Monica Ferrell

Afternoon in School - The Last Lesson

March 22nd, 2023

1:49

By D. H. Lawrence

Monsoon Poem

March 21st, 2023

4:16

By Tishani Doshi

Notes after Watching the Inauguration

March 20th, 2023

3:12

By KB Brookins

In Memory of the Utah Stars

March 19th, 2023

2:05

By William Matthews

A Kind of Villanelle

March 18th, 2023

1:16

By Joyce Sutphen

The Flowers

March 17th, 2023

1:11

by Don Paterson (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)

Snake Plant

March 16th, 2023

3:03

By KB Brookins

hastiin k’aalógii ’ání

March 15th, 2023

0:44

By Manny Loley

California

March 14th, 2023

1:31

By Cathleen Calbert

Know No Name

March 13th, 2023

0:46

By Kazim Ali

On the Subject of Doctors

March 12th, 2023

1:27

by James Tate

To You

March 11th, 2023

1:14

Flesh of John Brown’s Flesh: 2 December 1859

March 10th, 2023

1:53

by Geoffrey Brock

Hangul Abecedarian

March 9th, 2023

1:12

By Franny Choi

A Gift for You

March 8th, 2023

1:53

By Eileen Myles

Jotxland Epic

March 7th, 2023

9:15

By Rodolfo Avelar

meditating upon the meaning of the line "clams on the halfshell and rollerskates" in the song "good times" by chic

March 6th, 2023

2:17

By D.A. Powell

[11. VIOLENCE: ANGLO-LINGUISTIC]

March 5th, 2023

3:49

By Nam Le

The Mask Now

March 4th, 2023

10:13

By Jorie Graham

With a Swoop

March 3rd, 2023

0:57

By Uche Nduka

White Bridge Road

March 2nd, 2023

1:39

By Joan Murray

The Manhattan Project

March 1st, 2023

4:17

By Spencer Reece

Korean Mums

February 28th, 2023

2:02

By James Schuyler

You Know It As Spring

February 27th, 2023

0:49

Appointment

February 26th, 2023

0:52

By Jean Burden

The Almost Love Poem of Eloise and Kofi

February 25th, 2023

1:23

By Brian Gyamfi

Skeleton

February 24th, 2023

0:56

By Deborah Landau

Harold Norse says, “Poetry meant being a sissy and worse. A fairy. A friend of mine once asked me why all poets were fairies. Well, I answered, that’s because they can fly.”

February 23rd, 2023

2:33

By Tyler Raso

Lightkick! 2

February 22nd, 2023

1:11

By John Kinsella & Thurston Moore

Sweeping the States

February 21st, 2023

0:54

by Jacob Saenz

The Lucky Ones

February 20th, 2023

2:08

By Gabrielle Bates

Requiem for a Nest

February 19th, 2023

1:06

by Wanda Coleman

In Body Sweet

February 18th, 2023

3:20

By Austin Araujo

The Stags

February 17th, 2023

1:05

By Kathleen Jamie

Hummer

February 16th, 2023

1:40

By Pascale Petit

poem in praise of menstruation

February 15th, 2023

1:38

By Lucille Clifton

A Perfect Mess

February 14th, 2023

2:09

By Mary Karr

Tatt That

February 13th, 2023

0:43

By D.A. Powell

My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow

February 12th, 2023

1:31

By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Let Him Rest

February 11th, 2023

2:37

By George Abraham

An Old Woman’s Painting

February 10th, 2023

0:35

By Lynn Emanuel

We all receive the invitation.

February 9th, 2023

0:30

By Raquel Salas Rivera

Mary

February 8th, 2023

3:17

By William Blake

I Walked in the House

February 7th, 2023

2:42

By Catherine Wagner

Personally Engraved

February 6th, 2023

1:49

By Alice Fulton

Birdsong, face it, some male machine

February 5th, 2023

1:15

By Marianne Boruch

Night Singing

February 4th, 2023

1:53

By W.S. Merwin

Politics

February 3rd, 2023

1:33

By Randall Mann

Togetherness

February 2nd, 2023

1:29

By Yusef Komunyakaa

Contexts

February 1st, 2023

4:28

By Paul Monette

New Yorkers

January 31st, 2023

0:47

By Edward Field

La Prima Victoria

January 30th, 2023

0:45

By Idra Novey

Vase Poppies

January 29th, 2023

0:58

by Jennifer Scappettone

Mary, Color Scientist

January 28th, 2023

5:20

by John Beer

A March

January 27th, 2023

1:36

By Ishion Hutchinson

“engendro vacíos”

January 26th, 2023

0:35

By Beatriz Miralles de Imperial

Little God Origami

January 25th, 2023

1:06

by Stefi Weisburd

Maine Coast

January 24th, 2023

3:53

By Lillian Yvonne Bertram

She Lived

January 23rd, 2023

0:29

By Lucille Clifton

Superstition

January 22nd, 2023

1:21

By Ashley August

For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997

January 21st, 2023

3:01

Adult Acne

January 20th, 2023

1:06

By Elaine Kahn

To His Coy Mistress

January 19th, 2023

2:33

By Andrew Marvell

“A furnace in my father’s voice; I prayed for the coal stove’s”

January 18th, 2023

1:21

By Ishion Hutchinson

My Mother Contemplating Her Gun

January 17th, 2023

1:21

by Nick Flynn

I Just Want to Live Long Enough to See Allen Iverson Live Long Enough to Get His Reebok Check

January 16th, 2023

1:27

By Jason McCall

On Asking My Mother about Winter 1990

January 15th, 2023

1:22

By Abhijit Sarmah

Echo

January 14th, 2023

2:11

By Pura López-Colomé

Dear Amy Nehzooukammyatootill,

January 13th, 2023

2:00

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Self-Portrait as Daily Sustenance

January 12th, 2023

14:25

By Ae Hee Lee

Delection Even

January 11th, 2023

2:48

by Jennifer Scappettone

You've Got to Start Somewhere

January 10th, 2023

1:11

By Deborah Landau

Your Other Heart

January 9th, 2023

1:01

by Natalie Shapero

Buffalo Dusk

January 8th, 2023

0:36

By Carl Sandburg

Trash (Happy Birthday Al Roker)

January 7th, 2023

1:26

By Joshua Bennett

Song (“The world is full of loss ... ”)

January 6th, 2023

0:46

by Muriel Rukeyser

The Great Deceiver

January 5th, 2023

1:42

By Brian Lucas

Mosquito

January 4th, 2023

2:01

By Rodney Jones

[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]

January 3rd, 2023

1:53

by Juan Felipe Herrera

The Second Coming

January 2nd, 2023

1:24

By W.B. Yeats

Funny Strange

January 1st, 2023

1:15

by Jennifer Michael Hecht

da s

December 31st, 2022

3:07

by Jennifer Scappettone

Filming the Doomsday Clock

December 30th, 2022

2:22

By Mary Jo Bang

Reading: An Elegy

December 29th, 2022

1:44

By Jeanne Larsen

24/7

December 28th, 2022

2:20

By Alan Shapiro

A Prior Despair

December 27th, 2022

1:25

As From a Quiver of Arrows

December 26th, 2022

1:56

by Carl Phillips

Life Cycle of Common Man

December 25th, 2022

3:20

By Howard Nemerov

Forgetting

December 24th, 2022

2:30

By Joy Ladin

Houdini

December 23rd, 2022

0:47

By Kay Ryan

Some Material May Be Inappropriate For Children

December 22nd, 2022

3:40

by Jeffrey Jullich

Skyland

December 21st, 2022

1:52

by Brenda Iijima

A Hymn to Childhood

December 20th, 2022

3:53

Li-Young Lee

A Not So Good Night in the San Pedro of the World

December 19th, 2022

1:04

by Charles Bukowski

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