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Audio Poem of the Day
English, Poetry, 1 season, 662 episodes, 20 hours, 56 minutes
Audio Poem of the Day
English, Poetry, 1 season, 662 episodes, 20 hours, 56 minutes
Tattoo
by Ted Kooser (read by Ken Marks)
10/24/2024 • 45 seconds
Pocket Catechism
By Li-Young Lee
10/21/2024 • 1 minute, 26 seconds
Ceasefire Haiku
By Faisal Mohyuddin
10/18/2024 • 3 minutes, 23 seconds
Aeromancy, the Art of Sky Reading
By Mary B. Moore
10/16/2024 • 2 minutes, 1 second
I come from
By Kao Nhia Kue
10/15/2024 • 50 seconds
Lacing
By Tacey M. Atsitty
10/13/2024 • 3 minutes, 43 seconds
Beulah Peel Me a Grape
By Patricia Spears Jones
10/11/2024 • 1 minute, 47 seconds
Treyf
By sam sax
10/10/2024 • 2 minutes, 20 seconds
Autism Screening Questionnaire — Speech and Language Delay
By Oliver de la Paz
10/9/2024 • 6 minutes, 22 seconds
syntax
By Latif Askia Ba
10/8/2024 • 1 minute, 17 seconds
we acknowledge ourselves
By Allison Akootchook Warden
10/7/2024 • 8 minutes, 36 seconds
Wart Remover
By Jalynn Harris
10/6/2024 • 1 minute, 20 seconds
Lionhearts
By Karyna McGlynn
10/2/2024 • 2 minutes, 17 seconds
God
By Christian J. Collier
9/30/2024 • 2 minutes, 1 second
School of Unhabituation
By Miron Białoszewski
Tr. by Cavanagh Clare
9/29/2024 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
The Truth is Concrete
By Katie Peterson
9/25/2024 • 2 minutes, 28 seconds
Mother of People without Script
By Mai Der Vang
9/24/2024 • 1 minute, 13 seconds
The Dream Won’t Come True
By Kathy Fagan
9/22/2024 • 2 minutes, 45 seconds
Skeleton
By Deborah Landau
9/20/2024 • 48 seconds
a sudden hammering
By Kristi Stout
9/19/2024 • 1 minute, 49 seconds
Clarity
By John Kinsella
9/18/2024 • 2 minutes, 27 seconds
On a Walk
By Heather Christie
9/17/2024 • 1 minute, 3 seconds
Happy Trigger
By Carmen Giménez Smith
9/16/2024 • 41 seconds
immediately motionless likeness
By Kirsten Ihns
9/15/2024 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
The Farm
By Joyce Sutphen
9/14/2024 • 1 minute, 35 seconds
Echo
By Raymond Antrobus
9/13/2024 • 3 minutes, 2 seconds
Wildfire
By Joan Kwon Glass
9/12/2024 • 1 minute, 43 seconds
I’m rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time
By Arianna Monet
9/11/2024 • 55 seconds
Black Woman Selling Her Home in America
By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
9/9/2024 • 3 minutes, 26 seconds
Inner Circle
By Kathy Fagan
9/7/2024 • 1 minute, 8 seconds
This Is Love
By Amanda Johnston
9/6/2024 • 44 seconds
Chase Scene
By Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
9/4/2024 • 1 minute, 13 seconds
Kimberley Johnson
By Brandon Young
9/1/2024 • 1 minute, 20 seconds
Buccaneers: “Hollywood Africans,” 1983
By Myronn Hardy
8/30/2024 • 1 minute, 31 seconds
Goodbye 14
By Emily Sieu Liebowitz
8/28/2024 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
To Summarize a Galaxy
By beyza ozer
8/27/2024 • 1 minute, 30 seconds
Phantom
By Ali Power
8/24/2024 • 1 minute, 7 seconds
Sanctuary Stairs
By Stanley Jared
8/21/2024 • 1 minute, 21 seconds
when de uncola photographer
By avery r young
8/20/2024 • 1 minute, 5 seconds
Hummer
By Pascale Petit
8/19/2024 • 1 minute, 40 seconds
blue
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs
8/17/2024 • 1 minute, 2 seconds
Rain, First Morning
By Joanna Klink
8/15/2024 • 2 minutes, 38 seconds
Mountainal
By Jane Hirshfield
8/11/2024 • 49 seconds
There Is No Meaning Here
By Christine Kanownik
8/10/2024 • 46 seconds
Breadwinning for Birds
By Alli Warren
8/8/2024 • 55 seconds
Revelator (Excerpt 2)
By Ron Silliman
8/6/2024 • 1 minute, 53 seconds
From “The Herald’s Wand”
By Li Young Lee
8/5/2024 • 8 minutes, 51 seconds
The Ripples Are Ongoing Acts
By Adam Wolfond
8/4/2024 • 43 seconds
Becoming Anne Bradstreet
By Eavan Boland
8/3/2024 • 1 minute, 4 seconds
An Old Woman’s Painting
By Lynn Emanuel
8/2/2024 • 35 seconds
Graduation Day
By Matthew Zapruder
8/1/2024 • 1 minute, 29 seconds
Ark in the Field
By Joyce Peseroff
7/31/2024 • 1 minute, 7 seconds
Harness
By Jane Hirshfield
7/30/2024 • 20 seconds
At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says,
By Michael Frazier
7/29/2024 • 1 minute, 4 seconds
A True Dimension of Nothingness
By Jason Adam Sheets
7/28/2024 • 35 seconds
Ekphrasis on Nude Selfie as Portrait of Saint Sebastian
By torrin a. greathouse
7/27/2024 • 4 minutes, 22 seconds
Ekphrasis on Nude Selfie as Portrait of Saint Sebastian
By torrin a. greathouse
7/27/2024 • 4 minutes, 22 seconds
Conversion Comedy
By Ange Mlinko
7/26/2024 • 2 minutes, 50 seconds
Tattoo
by Ted Kooser (read by Ken Marks)
7/25/2024 • 45 seconds
Lost Jewels
By Megha Rao
7/24/2024 • 2 minutes, 2 seconds
Archery
By Carl Phillips
7/23/2024 • 2 minutes, 51 seconds
His Own Apollo
By Cyrus Cassells
7/22/2024 • 3 minutes, 59 seconds
Anti-Pastoral for Twenty-Faced Pathogen
By Pamilerin Jacob
7/21/2024 • 1 minute, 35 seconds
Childhood's Retreat
By Robert Duncan
7/20/2024 • 1 minute, 10 seconds
Passage
By Barbara Guest
7/19/2024 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
The truth of the picture
By Kacper Bartczak
Tr. by Mark Tardi
7/18/2024 • 46 seconds
For the Taking
By Sophie Cabot Black
7/17/2024 • 54 seconds
Black Flowers
By Norma Cole
7/16/2024 • 59 seconds
Oread
By H.D.
Read by Alexandra Merritt Mathews
7/15/2024 • 14 seconds
Hood Aesthetic
By Amy Alvarez
7/14/2024 • 1 minute, 24 seconds
This song
By Kacper Batczak
Tr. by Mark Tardi
7/13/2024 • 1 minute, 12 seconds
Loving the “I”
By Kim Moore
7/12/2024 • 2 minutes, 28 seconds
I’m Stepping Up in Singing Sandals, No Use For
By Bridget Talone
7/11/2024 • 1 minute, 4 seconds
Poisonwell Diaries: The Ghost
By Shanta Lee
7/10/2024 • 1 minute, 59 seconds
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
By Terrance Hayes
7/9/2024 • 1 minute, 10 seconds
Story Problem
By Cole Swensen
7/8/2024 • 58 seconds
Avenue of Plane Trees
By Jodie Hollander
7/7/2024 • 1 minute, 19 seconds
The Impossible Replication of Desire
By Lee Herrick
7/6/2024 • 51 seconds
Walking With My Father
By Linda Hogan
7/5/2024 • 2 minutes, 47 seconds
American Love Song
By Lachlan Chu
7/4/2024 • 1 minute, 24 seconds
Chimera (Excerpt 2)
By Averill Curdy
7/3/2024 • 1 minute, 8 seconds
In Eight Parts
by Paul Killebrew
7/2/2024 • 7 minutes, 48 seconds
Villanelle with a Line Borrowed from Bishop
By Kimiko Hahn
7/1/2024 • 1 minute, 31 seconds
Hour
6/30/2024 • 1 minute
Blessed Black
By Shanta Lee
6/29/2024 • 4 minutes, 17 seconds
The Wind
By Dafydd Ap Gwilym (translated by Gwyneth Lewis)
6/28/2024 • 3 minutes, 46 seconds
Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur
6/27/2024 • 2 minutes, 28 seconds
To the Ancient Order of Legs
By W.S. Merwin
6/26/2024 • 55 seconds
Oneirology
By Jordan Hamel
6/25/2024 • 1 minute, 16 seconds
Doxorubicin: Infusion
By Laura Paul Watson
6/24/2024 • 1 minute, 47 seconds
[accumulation of land]
by Myung Mi Kim
6/23/2024 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
Slow Dreams
By Robert Wrigley
6/22/2024 • 1 minute, 51 seconds
Antique
by Robert Pinsky
6/20/2024 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
The Piano Speaks
By Sandra Beasley
6/19/2024 • 1 minute, 32 seconds
At the Vietnam Center and Archive
By Hai-Dang Phan
6/17/2024 • 2 minutes, 2 seconds
The Rain-Streaked Avenues of Central Queens
by Dennis Nurkse
6/16/2024 • 54 seconds
Red Sea
By Daniel Poppick
6/14/2024 • 49 seconds
On Distance
By Sally Keith
6/13/2024 • 35 seconds
Glory-of-the-Atlantic
By McGrath Campbell
6/13/2024 • 8 minutes, 3 seconds
희미하게-남아-있다
By Ahn Joo Cheol
6/13/2024 • 2 minutes, 34 seconds
마을
By Ahn Joo Cheol
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 55 seconds
learningnonsense
By Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir Tr. by K B Thors
6/13/2024 • 27 seconds
I Am 17 I Have a Lot to Say
By Jackson Holbert
6/13/2024 • 3 minutes, 14 seconds
her mind ranged higher than common happenings
By Kristín Svava TómasdóttirTr. by K B Thors
6/13/2024 • 58 seconds
Female CEO
By Jackie Sabbagh
6/13/2024 • 2 minutes, 4 seconds
snow in most tracks
By Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir Tr. by K B Thors
6/13/2024 • 24 seconds
fennir í flestra spor
By Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir
6/13/2024 • 27 seconds
hugur hennar stóð hærra en almennt gerðist
By Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 5 seconds
lærdómsbrölt
By Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir
6/13/2024 • 27 seconds
Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately
By Jackie Sabbagh
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 47 seconds
Generic Indian Ennui
By Isabela Agosa
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
My Father’s Nest
By Dunya Mikhail
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 34 seconds
Still Life Wusthof in Hand
By Carol S McCarthy
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 11 seconds
Anoint
By Carlina Duan
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 35 seconds
함부르크
By Ahn Joo Cheol
6/13/2024 • 2 minutes, 56 seconds
It Faintly Lingers
By Ahn Joo CheolTr. by Jeanine Walker and Shim Jaekwan
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 26 seconds
Hamburg
By Ahn Joo CheolTr. by Jeanine Walker and Shim Jaekwan
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 37 seconds
A Cup of Trembling
By Kwame Dawes
6/13/2024 • 5 minutes, 25 seconds
Village
By Ahn Joo CheolTr. by Jeanine Walker and Shim Jaekwan
6/13/2024 • 59 seconds
“Molothrus ater”
By Samantha Chianese
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 48 seconds
Artificial Animal
By Sally Keith
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 51 seconds
Bakandamiya (This welcome begins...)
By Saddiq Dzukogi
6/13/2024 • 2 minutes, 4 seconds
Bakandamiya (In Jangari...)
By Saddiq Dzukogi
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 39 seconds
Perennial
By Patricia Guzman
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 12 seconds
First Fall
By Patricia Guzman
6/13/2024 • 59 seconds
The Handoff
By Matthew Rohrer
6/13/2024 • 26 seconds
Poem for Friends
By Matthew Rohrer
6/13/2024 • 36 seconds
& Then 4
By Sean Cho A.
6/13/2024 • 42 seconds
The Photographer
By Madeleine Cravens
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 5 seconds
Road to Harissa
By Madeleine Cravens
6/13/2024 • 57 seconds
Jacob Riis Beach
By Madeleine Cravens
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 17 seconds
The Growing
By Liz Harms
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 39 seconds
My Gender Is a Red Stiletto or Grocery Store Feet
By Leia K Bradley
6/13/2024 • 1 minute, 7 seconds
Walk ‘Bout
By Kwame Dawes
6/13/2024 • 4 minutes, 50 seconds
Straight Paths
By Kwame Dawes
6/13/2024 • 4 minutes, 19 seconds
Spotted
By Kwame Dawes
6/13/2024 • 4 minutes, 6 seconds
For a Farrier
By Matthew Rohrer
6/13/2024 • 42 seconds
Manifesto, or Ars Poetica #2
By Krista Franklin
6/13/2024 • 4 minutes, 15 seconds
Things to Do with a Monster
By Tacey M. Atsitty
6/12/2024 • 2 minutes, 24 seconds
Torn Coat
By Gerald Stern
6/11/2024 • 53 seconds
Rendezvous
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
6/10/2024 • 1 minute, 42 seconds
Contrapuntal Opening with a Line from Millay
By Kimiko Hahn
6/9/2024 • 2 minutes, 20 seconds
Two Guardians
By Roberto Tejada
6/8/2024 • 1 minute, 38 seconds
gravity furnace
By francine j. harris
6/7/2024 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
Bedtime Story
By Charles Wright
6/6/2024 • 1 minute, 18 seconds
The Pear
By Jane Hirshfield
6/5/2024 • 1 minute, 32 seconds
Love Song
by Mary Carolyn Davies
6/4/2024 • 48 seconds
Places Our People Are Martyred for the Last Time
By Troy Osaki
6/3/2024 • 51 seconds
Tracking
By Eleanor Wilner
6/2/2024 • 2 minutes, 19 seconds
Crip vs. Crip
By Walela Nehanda
6/1/2024 • 4 minutes, 24 seconds
Beautiful Woman
By A. R. Ammons
5/31/2024 • 12 seconds
Applesauce
By Ted Kooser
5/30/2024 • 1 minute, 29 seconds
Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d”
By Kimiko Hahn
5/29/2024 • 1 minute, 13 seconds
midnight
By Toni Giselle Stuart
5/28/2024 • 1 minute, 29 seconds
I Walked in the House
By Catherine Wagner
5/27/2024 • 2 minutes, 42 seconds
Silent Spread
By S. J. Fowler
5/26/2024 • 1 minute, 54 seconds
Massacre Song Foundation
By Trevino L. Brings Plenty
5/25/2024 • 1 minute, 43 seconds
And
By Robert Fernandez
5/24/2024 • 1 minute, 5 seconds
The Gospel of Mary
By Mary Jo Bang
5/23/2024 • 1 minute, 21 seconds
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
By E.E. Cummings
5/22/2024 • 3 minutes, 53 seconds
To You
5/21/2024 • 1 minute, 14 seconds
Sea Poppies
By H.D.
Read by Alexandra Merritt Mathews
5/20/2024 • 31 seconds
[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]
5/19/2024 • 2 minutes, 18 seconds
Michael Receives Advice from Marceline the Vampire, the Queen of the Deadbeat Daddy Issues, on How to Cope with an Absent Father
By Michael Frazier
5/18/2024 • 2 minutes, 43 seconds
After the Air Tattoo
By Fiona Sampson
5/17/2024 • 59 seconds
Idem the Same: A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson
by Gertrude Stein
5/16/2024 • 3 minutes, 46 seconds
Mixed Up Sestina
By Jordan Pérez
5/14/2024 • 3 minutes, 44 seconds
Cathedral of Salt
By Nick Flynn
5/13/2024 • 1 minute, 4 seconds
Dear One Absent This Long While
by Lisa Olstein
5/12/2024 • 1 minute, 12 seconds
Three Poems
by Lorine Niedecker (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)
5/11/2024 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
Mother Metro
By Martha Sprackland
5/10/2024 • 1 minute, 45 seconds
Game Night
By Conor O'Callaghan
5/9/2024 • 44 seconds
Birdsong, face it, some male machine
By Marianne Boruch
5/8/2024 • 1 minute, 15 seconds
Adriaen het Kint
By Joyelle McSweeney
5/7/2024 • 2 minutes, 7 seconds
(No Wind, No Rain)
By Jane Hirshfield
5/6/2024 • 41 seconds
Women
By Louise Bogan
5/5/2024 • 1 minute, 47 seconds
The Second Slaughter
By Lucia Perillo
5/4/2024 • 2 minutes, 41 seconds
The Renaissance
By Trey Moody
5/3/2024 • 1 minute, 35 seconds
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
By John Keats
5/2/2024 • 1 minute, 2 seconds
Fable
By Andrea Cohen
5/1/2024 • 1 minute, 9 seconds
Not Nothing Again
By Kimiko Hahn
4/30/2024 • 56 seconds
Scallop Song
By Anne Waldman
4/29/2024 • 1 minute, 40 seconds
Prison Chaplain
By Timothy Murphy
4/28/2024 • 1 minute, 33 seconds
Open and Closed Spaces
By Tomas Tranströmer
Tr. by Patty Crane
4/27/2024 • 1 minute, 1 second
Held in the Arms of St. Francis & the Virgin
By Jasmine Gibson
4/26/2024 • 55 seconds
Roll Call
By Erik Tschekunow
4/25/2024 • 2 minutes, 2 seconds
His Own Apollo
By Cyrus Cassells
4/24/2024 • 3 minutes, 59 seconds
Just Sepia
By Micah Ballard
4/23/2024 • 46 seconds
Burden Hill Apothecary & Babalú-Ayé Prepare Stinging Nettle Tea
By L. Lamar Wilson
4/22/2024 • 2 minutes, 46 seconds
Poet Wrestling with Her Empire of Dirt
By Rosebud Ben Oni
4/21/2024 • 3 minutes, 22 seconds
Some Things Last
By Ahmad Almallah
4/20/2024 • 1 minute, 55 seconds
ANAMNESIS
By Leslie McIntosh
4/19/2024 • 1 minute, 4 seconds
“Make It New”
By Alice Fulton
4/18/2024 • 1 minute, 17 seconds
Pyramid Scheme
By Hera Lindsay Bird
4/17/2024 • 3 minutes, 43 seconds
CAMH (On Sight)
by Douglas Kearney
4/16/2024 • 1 minute, 21 seconds
A Little Closer to the Edge
By Ocean Vuong
4/15/2024 • 1 minute, 38 seconds
The End of Landscape
By Randall Mann
4/14/2024 • 2 minutes, 3 seconds
Declaration
By Tracy K. Smith
4/13/2024 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
The Future Is Black as A Pocket
By Krista Franklin
4/12/2024 • 1 minute, 5 seconds
How We Heard the Name
By Alan Dugan
4/11/2024 • 46 seconds
The Tyger
By William Blake (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
4/10/2024 • 1 minute, 18 seconds
Matisse, Too
4/9/2024 • 1 minute, 15 seconds
The Mauve Notebook
By John Ashbery
4/8/2024 • 2 minutes, 32 seconds
To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street
By Franny Choi
4/7/2024 • 2 minutes, 3 seconds
War the War
by Jack Underwood
4/6/2024 • 1 minute, 8 seconds
Walking Away
By Cecil Day-Lewis
4/5/2024 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
Lost in the Milky Way
By Linda Hogan
4/4/2024 • 2 minutes, 18 seconds
nail hard
By Samiya Bashir
4/3/2024 • 1 minute, 23 seconds
Dear Lacuna, Dear Lard:
by Paisley Rekdal
4/2/2024 • 2 minutes, 9 seconds
Dworzec
By Emily Pérez
4/1/2024 • 1 minute, 27 seconds
Living in the body
By Joyce Sutphen
3/31/2024 • 1 minute, 35 seconds
Pearl
By Wendy Lotterman
3/30/2024 • 1 minute, 27 seconds
It’s Crude
By JT Lachausse
3/29/2024 • 3 minutes, 21 seconds
The Lucky Ones
By Gabrielle Bates
3/28/2024 • 2 minutes, 8 seconds
The Invisible Birds of Central America
By Craig Arnold
3/27/2024 • 1 minute, 14 seconds
Interlude
By Denise Leto
3/26/2024 • 3 minutes, 17 seconds
Rizal upon Hearing David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”
By Eugene Gloria
3/25/2024 • 1 minute, 36 seconds
Hinotama [The ball of light that bounced]
By Brandon Shimoda
3/24/2024 • 46 seconds
In the Green Morning, Now, Once More
By Delmore Schwartz
3/23/2024 • 34 seconds
Seeing It Through
by Alice Friman
3/22/2024 • 1 minute, 34 seconds
Of All Things
By Isabel Galleymore
3/21/2024 • 1 minute, 16 seconds
Twelve in Yellow-Weed at the Edge
By Cynthia Cruz
3/20/2024 • 36 seconds
Elegy
By Joanna Klink
3/19/2024 • 1 minute, 20 seconds
Our Side of the Creek
By Yusef Komunyakaa
3/18/2024 • 1 minute, 30 seconds
Border Wisdom
By Ahmad Almallah
3/17/2024 • 57 seconds
The Minister of Culture Gets His Wish
By Mark Strand
3/16/2024 • 1 minute, 2 seconds
A Bird in Bishopswood
By John Tickhill
Tr. by Eric Weiskott
3/15/2024 • 2 minutes, 34 seconds
Untitled Visual Poem
By Tea Gerbeza
3/14/2024 • 1 minute, 2 seconds
THE BAG OF SKUNK AND THE GHETTO BANK
By Yahya Hassan
3/13/2024 • 1 minute, 15 seconds
Nature Boy
By Tomás Q. Morín
3/12/2024 • 1 minute, 42 seconds
The Ash Bringer
By W. S. Di Piero
3/11/2024 • 2 minutes, 56 seconds
Wedding-Ring
By Denise Levertov
3/10/2024 • 1 minute, 17 seconds
Hardware
By Averill Curdy
3/8/2024 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
Leviathan
By George Oppen
3/7/2024 • 1 minute, 1 second
The Orient
By Kimiko Hahn
3/6/2024 • 13 minutes, 23 seconds
Love Calls Us
By Randall Mann
3/5/2024 • 1 minute, 36 seconds
The Monster in the Lake
By Martín Espada
3/4/2024 • 2 minutes, 9 seconds
From "Junk" [“‘Control’ by Janet Jackson is one of the greatest songs”]
By Tommy Pico
3/3/2024 • 3 minutes, 17 seconds
The Mission
By Kevin Young
3/2/2024 • 2 minutes, 11 seconds
Katrina
By Patricia Smith
3/1/2024 • 35 seconds
As a Child, You Worried You Would Be an Orphan
By Charlotte Pence
2/29/2024 • 1 minute, 33 seconds
Déjà Vu
By Carmen Giménez Smith
2/28/2024 • 1 minute, 33 seconds
A Negative of Snow
By Chase Twichell
2/27/2024 • 1 minute, 9 seconds
Familiars
By John Kinsella
2/26/2024 • 1 minute, 23 seconds
What I Carried
by Maggie Smith
2/25/2024 • 2 minutes, 34 seconds
The Name of that Silence is These Grasses in the Wind
By JJJJJerome Ellis
2/24/2024 • 3 minutes, 18 seconds
The Rolling Saint
By Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2/23/2024 • 1 minute, 19 seconds
The Air Plant
by Hart Crane (read by Thomas Lux)
2/22/2024 • 1 minute, 42 seconds
Nation of Domination
By José Olivarez
2/21/2024 • 1 minute, 3 seconds
The Sky Keeps Surprises
By Ahmad Almallah
2/20/2024 • 1 minute, 3 seconds
Rue
by Samuel Menashe (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
2/19/2024 • 27 seconds
The Sheets
2/18/2024 • 37 seconds
Roses
By Barbara Guest
2/17/2024 • 1 minute, 30 seconds
A Short History of Silence
By Jane Yeh
2/16/2024 • 1 minute, 9 seconds
Dirge Without Music
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
2/15/2024 • 1 minute, 36 seconds
Valentine's
By Talvikki Ansel
2/14/2024 • 1 minute, 2 seconds
Figure
By Josephine Miles
2/13/2024 • 59 seconds
Blues for Dante Alighieri
By Kim Addonizio
2/12/2024 • 1 minute, 44 seconds
Grand Expensive Vista
By Andrew Hudgins
2/11/2024 • 2 minutes, 51 seconds
The Tree Frogs
By William Logan
2/10/2024 • 1 minute, 34 seconds
Lost Jewels
By Megha Rao
2/9/2024 • 2 minutes, 2 seconds
Paper-Quilled Self-Portrait
By Tea Gerbeza
2/8/2024 • 1 minute, 5 seconds
Face Reading
By Travis Chi Wing Lau
2/7/2024 • 55 seconds
The Comb-Bearers
By Daniel Mark Epstein
2/6/2024 • 2 minutes, 3 seconds
The Age of Unreason
By Jennifer Chang
2/5/2024 • 4 minutes, 53 seconds
Clabber Milk Cornbread
By Diamond Forde
2/4/2024 • 2 minutes, 52 seconds
Trip to Delphi
By Alice Friman
2/3/2024 • 3 minutes, 16 seconds
Emily Dickinson
By Chad Bennett
2/2/2024 • 40 seconds
Maroon
By Kuhu Joshi
2/1/2024 • 2 minutes, 46 seconds
This Is a Billy Joe Harris Poem
By William J. Harris
1/31/2024 • 51 seconds
Sonnet Bernadette Mayer
By David Trinidad
1/30/2024 • 1 minute, 9 seconds
Owls
By Liza Katz Duncan
1/29/2024 • 2 minutes, 17 seconds
Carpet Bomb
By Kenyatta Rogers
1/28/2024 • 1 minute, 15 seconds
Erstwhile Harbinger Auspices
By Matthew Zapruder
1/27/2024 • 1 minute, 51 seconds
What I Learned From the Incredible Hulk
By Aimee Nezhukumatathil
1/26/2024 • 1 minute, 8 seconds
Superstition
By Ashley August
1/25/2024 • 1 minute, 21 seconds
Perihan
By Sara Deniz Akant
1/24/2024 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
Roses
By Barbara Guest
1/23/2024 • 1 minute, 30 seconds
Pathos of the Momentary Smile
By Mark Halliday
1/22/2024 • 1 minute, 33 seconds
Cowpunk
By Diane Seuss
1/21/2024 • 3 minutes, 3 seconds
An Apparatus
by Keith Waldrop
1/20/2024 • 5 minutes
Colorete
By Eduardo Martinez-Leyva
1/19/2024 • 2 minutes, 13 seconds
Thanatos Machine
By Terese Svoboda
1/18/2024 • 57 seconds
May
By Edwina Attlee
1/17/2024 • 3 minutes, 56 seconds
It includes the butterfly and the rat, the shit
By Marianne Boruch
1/16/2024 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
The Gaffe
by C.K. Williams
1/15/2024 • 2 minutes, 50 seconds
won't you celebrate with me
By Lucille Clifton
1/14/2024 • 42 seconds
Dream 2
By Eileen Myles
1/13/2024 • 49 seconds
Eagle Affirmation
by John Kinsella
1/12/2024 • 1 minute, 30 seconds
El Tigre Market
By Juan Delgado
1/11/2024 • 44 seconds
Big Snow
By Philip Gross
1/10/2024 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
Pharmhouse
By Brody Parrish Craig
1/8/2024 • 1 minute, 34 seconds
The President Flies Over
By Patricia Smith
1/7/2024 • 1 minute, 29 seconds
I Thought a Tree Dying
By Sandra Doller
1/6/2024 • 57 seconds
Green Sees Things in Waves
By August Kleinzahler
1/5/2024 • 2 minutes, 31 seconds
O God of Cuba
By Jordan Pérez
1/4/2024 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
Day 80: Dorchester
By Stephen Lightbown
1/3/2024 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
Three Love Chants
By Rachel Tzvia Back
1/2/2024 • 1 minute, 23 seconds
The Girl with Bees in Her Hair
By Eleanor Wilner
1/1/2024 • 3 minutes, 13 seconds
Black Site (Exhibit I)
By Philip Metres
12/31/2023 • 1 minute
Comedy with Flutes
By Patricia Spears Jones
12/30/2023 • 1 minute, 49 seconds
Song Beside the Barn Wall
By Alice Templeton
12/29/2023 • 1 minute, 31 seconds
Clearing the Forest, This Precious Coupling
By Haki R Madhubuti
12/28/2023 • 2 minutes, 59 seconds
The Damned
By Roddy Lumsden
12/27/2023 • 1 minute, 19 seconds
Open Openly
By Alan Felsenthal
12/26/2023 • 2 minutes, 11 seconds
The Hypnotist's Daughter
By Lisa Olstein
12/25/2023 • 2 minutes, 34 seconds
Reunion
By Megan Fernandes
12/24/2023 • 1 minute, 54 seconds
ABC for Refugees
By Monica Sok
12/23/2023 • 1 minute, 27 seconds
The signals come in from the dark
By Daniela Danz
Tr. by Monika Cassel
12/22/2023 • 3 minutes, 25 seconds
“I bring forth voids”
By Beatriz Miralles de Imperial
12/21/2023 • 28 seconds
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
By Ted Kooser
12/20/2023 • 1 minute, 37 seconds
To Judgment: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
12/19/2023 • 3 minutes, 14 seconds
Crush 1999
By Peter Mason
12/18/2023 • 57 seconds
[Immigration Headline]
By Javier Zamora
12/17/2023 • 1 minute, 20 seconds
In the Next Next World
By Gillian Conoley
12/16/2023 • 1 minute, 34 seconds
Ark
By Enrique S. Villasis
Tr. by Bernard Kean Capinpin
12/15/2023 • 45 seconds
Ode to Patrick Swayze
By Tishani Doshi
12/14/2023 • 2 minutes, 36 seconds
Monster
By Jason Irwin
12/13/2023 • 1 minute, 16 seconds
A Fable
by Anna Maria Hong
12/12/2023 • 27 seconds
The Window, at the Moment of Flame
By Alicia Ostriker
12/11/2023 • 1 minute, 14 seconds
Invocation to Convince a Baby Already Twelve Days Overdue to Come Out
By Jeanne Murray Walker
12/10/2023 • 1 minute, 47 seconds
Arequipa
By Ben Okri
12/9/2023 • 1 minute, 23 seconds
How Much?
By Carl Sandburg
12/8/2023 • 33 seconds
Lilacs on my Birthday
By Joyce Peseroff
12/7/2023 • 1 minute, 2 seconds
Tarp
By Rick Barot
12/6/2023 • 1 minute, 52 seconds
Erysichthon
By Ted Hughes
Read by Keyne Cheshire
12/5/2023 • 13 minutes, 35 seconds
Beginnings
By Jacqueline Johnson
12/4/2023 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
Everything
By Fanny Howe
12/3/2023 • 47 seconds
From “The Herald’s Wand”
By Li Young Lee
12/2/2023 • 8 minutes, 51 seconds
Renascence
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
12/1/2023 • 1 minute, 32 seconds
So Many Books, So Little Time
By Haki R Madhubuti
11/30/2023 • 3 minutes, 54 seconds
Snow
By Frederick Seidel
11/29/2023 • 19 seconds
Sappho 58
By Jameson Fitzpatrick
11/28/2023 • 1 minute, 13 seconds
Wilderness
By Carl Sandburg
11/27/2023 • 3 minutes, 2 seconds
Lady Birds’ Evening Meetings
By Tacey M. Atsitty
11/26/2023 • 2 minutes, 44 seconds
Conversation 12: On Hieroglyphs
by Rosmarie Waldrop
11/25/2023 • 2 minutes, 15 seconds
Be More Like Björk
By Camille Guthrie
11/24/2023 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
An Old Woman's Painting
By Lynn Emanuel
11/23/2023 • 35 seconds
At a Standstill
By Samuel Menashe
11/22/2023 • 56 seconds
"Guard the Jade Pass"
By Kimiko Hahn
11/21/2023 • 2 minutes, 37 seconds
Frederick Douglass
By Robert Hayden
11/20/2023 • 1 minute, 26 seconds
From a Daybook
By David St. John
11/19/2023 • 1 minute, 29 seconds
ETC. The Resistance
By Stephanie Heit
11/18/2023 • 2 minutes, 35 seconds
The Dipper
by Kathleen Jamie
11/17/2023 • 49 seconds
At the Fishhouses
By Elizabeth Bishop
11/16/2023 • 5 minutes, 1 second
Absolute Variations
By Wendy Xu
11/15/2023 • 1 minute, 46 seconds
Mingus at the Showplace
by William Matthews
11/14/2023 • 1 minute, 20 seconds
Time in a Brown House
By Mark Halliday
11/12/2023 • 2 minutes, 50 seconds
You Own It
By Alice Fulton
11/11/2023 • 4 minutes, 10 seconds
Love Poem: Tulsidas
By Timothy Liu
11/10/2023 • 39 seconds
Irish Goodbye
By Kimberly Casey
11/9/2023 • 2 minutes, 25 seconds
At the Justice Department November 15, 1969
By Denise Levertov
11/8/2023 • 1 minute, 29 seconds
The Little Ice Age
By Kathy Nilsson
11/7/2023 • 57 seconds
wolf dream moon
By Gaia Thomas
11/6/2023 • 2 minutes, 46 seconds
Soft Hail
by Keith Waldrop
11/5/2023 • 1 minute, 55 seconds
“soy llaga abierta”
By Beatriz Miralles de Imperial
11/4/2023 • 28 seconds
Interlude
By Denise Leto
11/3/2023 • 3 minutes, 17 seconds
"Wreck" and "rise above"
By Eleanor Wilner
11/2/2023 • 2 minutes, 17 seconds
Walking With My Father
By Linda Hogan
11/1/2023 • 2 minutes, 47 seconds
A Rhyme for Halloween
by Maurice Kilwein Guevara
10/31/2023 • 2 minutes, 13 seconds
Notes after Watching the Inauguration
By KB Brookins
10/30/2023 • 3 minutes, 12 seconds
After the Angelectomy
By Alice Fulton
10/29/2023 • 1 minute, 56 seconds
The Fish
By Tomaž Šalamun tr. by Brian Henry
10/28/2023 • 3 minutes, 41 seconds
Incognito
By John Kinsella
10/27/2023 • 2 minutes, 10 seconds
Body of a Cat
By Sa Whitley
10/26/2023 • 1 minute, 8 seconds
What Is the Measure
By Donika Kelly
10/25/2023 • 1 minute, 58 seconds
Resilience
By Kimiko Hahn
10/24/2023 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
Aperture
By Jennifer Tonge
10/23/2023 • 1 minute, 4 seconds
Company
By Emily Hunt
10/22/2023 • 1 minute, 52 seconds
Perfect Pitch
by Peter Pereira
10/21/2023 • 1 minute, 48 seconds
Reparations Metric Ending in Assisted Schadenfreude
By Marcus Wicker
10/20/2023 • 1 minute, 29 seconds
Mothers
By Gabrielle Bates
10/19/2023 • 5 minutes, 40 seconds
Vigil
By Hilary Brown
10/18/2023 • 2 minutes, 17 seconds
Water of the womb
By Tianna Bratcher
10/17/2023 • 1 minute, 42 seconds
Night Music
By Linda Gregg
10/16/2023 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
On Mindfulness
By CooXooEii Black
10/15/2023 • 1 minute, 31 seconds
Todesfuge
By Paul Celan
Tr. by Dean Rader
10/14/2023 • 2 minutes, 42 seconds
T Shot #9: Ode to My Sharps Container
By KB Brookins
10/13/2023 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Brenda Ijima)
10/12/2023 • 1 minute, 56 seconds
This Loneliness—: A Pornography of Riches
By Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
10/11/2023 • 2 minutes, 7 seconds
O, She Says
By Hailey Leithauser
10/10/2023 • 1 minute
Hidden Harvest
by Rodrigo Toscano
10/9/2023 • 3 minutes, 10 seconds
The Town Dump
By Howard Nemerov
10/8/2023 • 5 minutes, 5 seconds
An Epiphany
By Ted Kooser
10/7/2023 • 37 seconds
Foreward
By A.V. Christie
10/6/2023 • 55 seconds
What You Mourn
By Sheila Black
10/5/2023 • 1 minute, 50 seconds
Seeing through the Ground
By Tomas Tranströmer
Tr. by Patty Crane
10/4/2023 • 51 seconds
The Sow Speaks to Noah
By Diamond Forde
10/3/2023 • 1 minute, 50 seconds
Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination Before a Diagnosis Can Be Determined
By torrin a. greathouse
10/2/2023 • 2 minutes, 25 seconds
Two Trees
By Joanna Klink
10/1/2023 • 3 minutes, 37 seconds
Screenplay
By Harryette Mullen
9/30/2023 • 2 minutes, 12 seconds
Lomita, California
By Diana Marie Delgado
9/29/2023 • 40 seconds
The Great Deceiver
By Brian Lucas
9/28/2023 • 1 minute, 42 seconds
The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll
9/27/2023 • 4 minutes, 36 seconds
Sun and Fun
By John Betjeman
9/26/2023 • 1 minute, 39 seconds
Thanking Master Zhang with a Poem (English)
By Wang Wei
Tr. by Susan Wan Dolling
9/25/2023 • 49 seconds
Déjà Vu
By Carmen Giménez Smith
9/24/2023 • 1 minute, 33 seconds
When You’re Seventeen Everything Sounds like a Secret Anthem to Doom
By Karyna McGlynn
9/23/2023 • 3 minutes, 24 seconds
Red Parade
By David Trinidad
9/22/2023 • 1 minute, 49 seconds
Foreign Body
by Kimiko Hahn
9/21/2023 • 2 minutes, 9 seconds
Afrofuturism (Blanche says, “Meh”)
by Douglas Kearney
9/20/2023 • 1 minute, 36 seconds
Because You’re Queer
By Aaron Smith
9/19/2023 • 2 minutes, 43 seconds
Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing
By Adam Wolfond
9/18/2023 • 1 minute, 30 seconds
My Galley, Charged With Forgetfulness
by Thomas Wyatt
9/17/2023 • 1 minute, 31 seconds
The Obscenity Prayer
By Mary Karr
9/16/2023 • 36 seconds
To What You Said
By Walt Whitman
9/15/2023 • 1 minute, 13 seconds
The Victorian on Edge
By Sandra Simonds
9/14/2023 • 39 seconds
Happy Campus
By Rodrigo Toscano
9/13/2023 • 2 minutes, 13 seconds
School of Unhabituation
By Miron Białoszewski
Tr. by Cavanagh Clare
9/12/2023 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
Mary
By William Blake
9/11/2023 • 3 minutes, 17 seconds
Perhaps I Am a Fugitive of Empathy
By Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul
9/10/2023 • 1 minute, 47 seconds
Song-Riddle: Asian Box Turtle
By Karen An-hwei Lee
9/9/2023 • 55 seconds
Poem with Human Intelligence
By J Estanislao Lopez
9/8/2023 • 1 minute, 10 seconds
The Lucky Ones
By Gabrielle Bates
9/7/2023 • 2 minutes, 8 seconds
Open Openly
By Alan Felsenthal
9/6/2023 • 2 minutes, 11 seconds
Umpaowastewin
by Margaret Noodin
9/5/2023 • 1 minute, 18 seconds
Delection Even
by Jennifer Scappettone
9/4/2023 • 2 minutes, 48 seconds
Love Looks Not with the Eyes
By William Shakespeare
9/3/2023 • 1 minute, 39 seconds
Our People I
By CM Burroughs
9/2/2023 • 1 minute, 9 seconds
Nap Taker
By Shel Silverstein
9/1/2023 • 2 minutes, 22 seconds
Epitaph as My Mother’s Daughter
By Kaitlin Rizzo
8/31/2023 • 51 seconds
Lines Composed upon Changing a Diaper
By Jaswinder Bolina
8/30/2023 • 1 minute, 45 seconds
Remember
By Christina Rossetti
8/29/2023 • 59 seconds
Golden Hour
By Huan He
8/28/2023 • 51 seconds
On the Great Atlantic Rainway
By Kenneth Koch
8/27/2023 • 2 minutes, 11 seconds
I Covered a Great Distance Without Effort
by Jeffrey Jullich
8/26/2023 • 1 minute, 53 seconds
Anniversary
By Marie Ponsot
8/25/2023 • 2 minutes, 51 seconds
Conversion Comedy
by Ange Mlinko
8/24/2023 • 3 minutes, 15 seconds
Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
By William Shakespeare
8/23/2023 • 1 minute, 9 seconds
Sympathetic Magpies
By William J. Harris
8/22/2023 • 50 seconds
A Worldly Country
by John Ashbery
8/21/2023 • 2 minutes, 10 seconds
After Someone’s Death
By Tomas Tranströmer
Tr. by Patty Crane
8/20/2023 • 57 seconds
The Ripples Are Ongoing Acts
By Adam Wolfond
8/19/2023 • 43 seconds
“Fever your sex is a crab”
By Joyce Mansour
Tr. by Emilie Moorhouse
8/18/2023 • 45 seconds
Utang Na Loob
By Michelle Peñaloza
8/17/2023 • 3 minutes, 42 seconds
The Dream of a Fire Engine
By Kimiko Hahn
8/16/2023 • 39 seconds
Advice to the Able-Bodied Poet Entering the Disability Poetics Workshop
By Liv Mammone
8/15/2023 • 7 minutes, 23 seconds
Korean Mums
By James Schuyler
8/14/2023 • 2 minutes, 2 seconds
If The Sun Comes Up
By Zoe Stoller
8/13/2023 • 2 minutes, 24 seconds
salat to be read from right to left
By Dujie Tahat
8/12/2023 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
Tar Kettle on Prince Street
by Jesse Jennison (read by Barbara Rosenblatt)
8/11/2023 • 42 seconds
Hood Aesthetic
By Amy Alvarez
8/10/2023 • 1 minute, 24 seconds
River of Milk
By Kaveh Akbar
8/9/2023 • 2 minutes, 26 seconds
The Bitterness of Children
by Thomas Lux
8/8/2023 • 57 seconds
Land's End
By Weldon Kees
8/7/2023 • 45 seconds
I’m rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time
By Arianna Monet
8/6/2023 • 55 seconds
The Demon
By Jennifer Firestone
8/5/2023 • 2 minutes, 59 seconds
A Feeling Right Before the Feeling
By Brenda Hillman
8/4/2023 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
The Lie
By Anne Waldman
8/3/2023 • 1 minute, 5 seconds
Among the Gorgons
By Michelle Boisseau
8/2/2023 • 1 minute, 18 seconds
A Gift for You
By Eileen Myles
8/1/2023 • 1 minute, 53 seconds
Golden Hour
By Kimberly Casey
7/31/2023 • 1 minute, 32 seconds
Sissieretta Jones
By Tyehimba Jess
7/30/2023 • 1 minute, 24 seconds
The Fall of 1992
By Randall Mann
7/29/2023 • 1 minute, 48 seconds
Morning
By Billy Collins
7/28/2023 • 54 seconds
Evening Constitutional
By Rita Dove
7/27/2023 • 58 seconds
Chase Scene
By Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
7/26/2023 • 1 minute, 13 seconds
James Dean with Pig
By sam sax
7/25/2023 • 1 minute, 37 seconds
There She Is
By Linda Gregg
7/24/2023 • 1 minute, 23 seconds
All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems
By Michelle Peñaloza
7/23/2023 • 2 minutes, 14 seconds
Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
By William Shakespeare
7/22/2023 • 1 minute, 34 seconds
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
By Terrance Hayes
7/21/2023 • 59 seconds
Eccentric Votive Offering
By Bruce Beasley
7/20/2023 • 2 minutes, 54 seconds
Beautiful Habit
By Tom Raworth
7/19/2023 • 2 minutes, 35 seconds
Talk to Strangers
By D.A. Powell
7/18/2023 • 22 seconds
Filling Station
By Elizabeth Bishop
7/17/2023 • 1 minute, 54 seconds
Triple Sonnet for Black Hair
By Dorothy Chan
7/16/2023 • 2 minutes, 8 seconds
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (read by Laura Marks)
7/15/2023 • 1 minute, 7 seconds
Emergence
By Manny Loley
7/14/2023 • 33 seconds
"Wreck" and "rise above"
By Eleanor Wilner
7/13/2023 • 2 minutes, 17 seconds
A Story about Chicken Soup
by Louis Simpson
7/12/2023 • 1 minute, 53 seconds
For the Taking
By Sophie Cabot Black
7/11/2023 • 54 seconds
Death Style 8.17.20
By Joyelle McSweeney
7/10/2023 • 3 minutes, 28 seconds
Perfect Pitch
by Peter Pereira
7/9/2023 • 1 minute, 48 seconds
From “Nudos”
By Teresa Soto
7/8/2023 • 57 seconds
Let Me Count the Waves
By Sandra Beasley
7/7/2023 • 2 minutes, 47 seconds
Ramadan
By Kazim Ali
7/6/2023 • 1 minute, 12 seconds
Measure
by Robert Hass
7/5/2023 • 48 seconds
Cape Song
By Michael Metivier
7/4/2023 • 3 minutes, 16 seconds
Sukdu’a
By Annie Wenstrup
7/3/2023 • 6 minutes, 42 seconds
The Girl with Bees in Her Hair
By Eleanor Wilner
7/2/2023 • 3 minutes, 13 seconds
Prayer for the Mutilated World
By sam sax
7/1/2023 • 2 minutes, 2 seconds
From Citizen: “You are in the dark, in the car...”
By Claudia Rankine
6/30/2023 • 5 minutes, 42 seconds
Bedtime Story
By Charles Wright
6/29/2023 • 1 minute, 18 seconds
Sweeping the States
by Jacob Saenz
6/28/2023 • 54 seconds
Growing a Bear
by Hannah Gamble
6/27/2023 • 3 minutes, 27 seconds
Robinson
By Weldon Kees
6/26/2023 • 1 minute, 15 seconds
From “R E D”
By Chase Berggrun
6/25/2023 • 2 minutes, 20 seconds
Viatge interior
By Anna Gual
6/24/2023 • 1 minute
An hour is not a house
By Jane Hirshfield
6/23/2023 • 37 seconds
Song
By W. D. Snodgrass
6/22/2023 • 1 minute, 17 seconds
The Hen Swallows a Worm or Slug
By A. V. Christie
6/21/2023 • 2 minutes, 8 seconds
J. Beer 1969-1969
by John Beer
6/20/2023 • 2 minutes, 42 seconds
“escribo hasta perder el rostro”
By Beatriz Miralles de Imperial
6/19/2023 • 37 seconds
Red
by Mary Ruefle
6/18/2023 • 14 seconds
Samurai Song
by Robert Pinsky
6/17/2023 • 1 minute, 7 seconds
After Ken Burns
By Laura Kasischke
6/16/2023 • 1 minute, 57 seconds
da s
by Jennifer Scappettone
6/15/2023 • 3 minutes, 7 seconds
Mom Betty Addresses the Nature of Proportion
By Eileen R. Tabios
6/14/2023 • 1 minute
On First Seeing a U.S. Forest Service Aerial Photo of Where I Live
by James Galvin
6/13/2023 • 1 minute, 8 seconds
Myth of the Blaze
By George Oppen
6/12/2023 • 2 minutes, 16 seconds
Reunion
By Charles Wright
6/11/2023 • 34 seconds
Quiescence
By Alyse Knorr
6/10/2023 • 1 minute, 1 second
Cratylus
By Latif Askia Ba
6/9/2023 • 3 minutes, 8 seconds
ROYGBIV
By Fred D'Aguiar
6/8/2023 • 1 minute, 26 seconds
First Rites
By Micah Ballard
6/7/2023 • 2 minutes, 37 seconds
The Annunciation
By Samuel Menashe
6/6/2023 • 33 seconds
Familiars
By John Kinsella
6/5/2023 • 1 minute, 23 seconds
The Window, at the Moment of Flame
By Alicia Ostriker
6/4/2023 • 1 minute, 14 seconds
Maroon
By Kuhu Joshi
6/3/2023 • 2 minutes, 46 seconds
Late Spring
by Campbell McGrath (read by Anne O. Sullivan)
6/2/2023 • 1 minute, 54 seconds
Variation on the Word Sleep
By Margaret Atwood
6/1/2023 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
A Regret
By David Trinidad
5/31/2023 • 1 minute, 9 seconds
Untitled #9, 1995
By Victoria Chang
5/30/2023 • 1 minute, 11 seconds
You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life
By Tom Raworth
5/29/2023 • 1 minute, 14 seconds
Tarp
By Rick Barot
5/28/2023 • 1 minute, 52 seconds
Ross: Children of the Ghetto
By George Szirtes
5/27/2023 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
My Fathers, Coming and Going
By George Szirtes
5/26/2023 • 1 minute, 47 seconds
Ye Elves of Hills, Brooks, Standing Lakes and Groves
By William Shakespeare
5/25/2023 • 1 minute, 59 seconds
Mantric Blizzard as Space
By Will Alexander
5/24/2023 • 1 minute, 13 seconds
As If from the Sea
By C. Dale Young
5/23/2023 • 3 minutes, 2 seconds
Anagrammer
By Peter Pereira
5/22/2023 • 1 minute, 52 seconds
Late February
By Ted Kooser
5/21/2023 • 1 minute, 22 seconds
If suddenly
By Anu Lakhan
5/20/2023 • 38 seconds
Dark Ceiling
by Edward Dorn
5/19/2023 • 56 seconds
"I came upon the gnawed torso of a seal"
By Melanie Braverman
5/18/2023 • 45 seconds
A Little Closer to the Edge
By Ocean Vuong
5/17/2023 • 1 minute, 38 seconds
In the Thriving Season
by Lisel Mueller (read by Melissa Severin)
5/16/2023 • 1 minute, 9 seconds
Night Bird
By Danusha Laméris
5/15/2023 • 1 minute, 13 seconds
Nights
By Mona Kareem tr. by Sara Elkamel
5/14/2023 • 1 minute, 33 seconds
I saw this day coming
By Stacy Szymaszek
5/13/2023 • 2 minutes, 24 seconds
Mortification by Census
By Rodney Gómez
5/12/2023 • 55 seconds
Creative Writing
By Miroslav Holub
5/11/2023 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
Harness
By Jane Hirshfield
5/10/2023 • 20 seconds
Against Pink
By Dara Yen Elerath
5/9/2023 • 1 minute, 56 seconds
To My Dear and Loving Husband
by Anne Bradstreet (read by Laura Marks)
5/8/2023 • 54 seconds
Testament
By Connie Voisine
5/7/2023 • 1 minute, 31 seconds
Striplings
By Atsuro Riley
5/5/2023 • 2 minutes, 50 seconds
Garden of Eden
By Tracy K. Smith
5/4/2023 • 1 minute, 17 seconds
Renting
By Brian Tierney
5/3/2023 • 1 minute, 34 seconds
small teachers
By Canese Jarboe
5/2/2023 • 54 seconds
“La guerra nos declaraste”
By Irma Pineda
5/1/2023 • 37 seconds
So Many Books, So Little Time
By Haki R Madhubuti
4/30/2023 • 3 minutes, 54 seconds
Living Among the Dead
By William Matthews
4/29/2023 • 2 minutes, 49 seconds
we acknowledge ourselves
By Allison Akootchook Warden
4/28/2023 • 8 minutes, 36 seconds
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by T.S. Eliot
4/27/2023 • 7 minutes, 19 seconds
Southern Gothic
By Rickey Laurentiis
4/26/2023 • 56 seconds
“soy llaga abierta”
By Beatriz Miralles de Imperial
4/25/2023 • 28 seconds
A Feeling Right Before the Feeling
By Brenda Hillman
4/24/2023 • 1 minute, 25 seconds
Their Bodies
By David Wagoner
4/23/2023 • 1 minute, 30 seconds
Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine
By Karen An-Hwei Lee
4/22/2023 • 1 minute, 5 seconds
Like Judith Slaying Holofernes
By Paul Tran
4/21/2023 • 2 minutes, 1 second
Fugue
by Peter Pereira
4/20/2023 • 1 minute, 44 seconds
"No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief."
By Gerard Manley Hopkins (read by Mary Jo Bang)
4/19/2023 • 1 minute, 45 seconds
The Editor's Ex
By Caitlin Doyle
4/18/2023 • 1 minute, 1 second
Bay Leaves
By Nikki Giovanni
4/18/2023 • 57 seconds
Claiming Language, Claiming Art V
By Haki R Madhubuti
4/17/2023 • 5 minutes, 35 seconds
Echo
By Pura López-Colomé
4/16/2023 • 2 minutes, 11 seconds
Permanent Press
By Alice Friman
4/15/2023 • 1 minute, 28 seconds
The History of Mothers of Sons
By Lisa Furmanski
4/14/2023 • 1 minute, 2 seconds
Apology, with Interruptions
By Rita Dove
4/13/2023 • 53 seconds
The Fifteen-Year-Old Considers His Closet
By Tarik Dobbs
4/12/2023 • 47 seconds
From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
By CAConrad
4/11/2023 • 29 seconds
Her Dreams
By Nikki Giovanni
4/10/2023 • 1 minute, 1 second
from Light: Blue Poles
By Inger Christensen
4/9/2023 • 1 minute, 13 seconds
Midsummer
By Arthur Sze
4/8/2023 • 1 minute, 34 seconds
What I Like
by Alice Fulton
4/7/2023 • 1 minute, 10 seconds
James Schuyler
by David Trinidad
4/6/2023 • 4 minutes, 7 seconds
Enough Music
By Dorianne Laux
4/5/2023 • 29 seconds
To the Harbormaster
By Frank O'Hara
4/4/2023 • 1 minute, 1 second
Underneath (13)
by Jorie Graham
4/3/2023 • 4 minutes, 20 seconds
In a Station of the Metro
by Ezra Pound
4/2/2023 • 20 seconds
April Snow
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The Museum of Stones
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3/30/2023 • 3 minutes, 29 seconds
What Is Sacred
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3/29/2023 • 1 minute, 17 seconds
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3/28/2023 • 1 minute, 16 seconds
Sanctuary
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3/27/2023 • 1 minute, 26 seconds
Revelator (Excerpt 2)
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3/26/2023 • 1 minute, 53 seconds
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3/25/2023 • 2 minutes, 37 seconds
Nation of Domination
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3/24/2023 • 1 minute, 3 seconds
Myths of the Disappearance
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3/23/2023 • 1 minute, 8 seconds
Afternoon in School - The Last Lesson
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3/22/2023 • 1 minute, 49 seconds
Monsoon Poem
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3/21/2023 • 4 minutes, 16 seconds
Notes after Watching the Inauguration
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3/20/2023 • 3 minutes, 12 seconds
In Memory of the Utah Stars
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3/19/2023 • 2 minutes, 5 seconds
A Kind of Villanelle
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3/18/2023 • 1 minute, 16 seconds
The Flowers
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3/17/2023 • 1 minute, 11 seconds
Snake Plant
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3/16/2023 • 3 minutes, 3 seconds
hastiin k’aalógii ’ání
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3/15/2023 • 44 seconds
California
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3/14/2023 • 1 minute, 31 seconds
Know No Name
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3/13/2023 • 46 seconds
On the Subject of Doctors
by James Tate
3/12/2023 • 1 minute, 27 seconds
To You
3/11/2023 • 1 minute, 14 seconds
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3/10/2023 • 1 minute, 53 seconds
Hangul Abecedarian
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3/9/2023 • 1 minute, 12 seconds
A Gift for You
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3/8/2023 • 1 minute, 53 seconds
Jotxland Epic
By Rodolfo Avelar
3/7/2023 • 9 minutes, 15 seconds
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3/6/2023 • 2 minutes, 17 seconds
[11. VIOLENCE: ANGLO-LINGUISTIC]
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3/5/2023 • 3 minutes, 49 seconds
The Mask Now
By Jorie Graham
3/4/2023 • 10 minutes, 13 seconds
With a Swoop
By Uche Nduka
3/3/2023 • 57 seconds
White Bridge Road
By Joan Murray
3/2/2023 • 1 minute, 39 seconds
The Manhattan Project
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3/1/2023 • 4 minutes, 17 seconds
Korean Mums
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2/28/2023 • 2 minutes, 2 seconds
You Know It As Spring
2/27/2023 • 49 seconds
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2/26/2023 • 52 seconds
The Almost Love Poem of Eloise and Kofi
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2/25/2023 • 1 minute, 23 seconds
Skeleton
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2/24/2023 • 56 seconds
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.”
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2/23/2023 • 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Lightkick! 2
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2/22/2023 • 1 minute, 11 seconds
Sweeping the States
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2/21/2023 • 54 seconds
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2/20/2023 • 2 minutes, 8 seconds
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2/19/2023 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
In Body Sweet
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2/18/2023 • 3 minutes, 20 seconds
The Stags
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2/17/2023 • 1 minute, 5 seconds
Hummer
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2/16/2023 • 1 minute, 40 seconds
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2/15/2023 • 1 minute, 38 seconds
A Perfect Mess
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Tatt That
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2/13/2023 • 43 seconds
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2/11/2023 • 2 minutes, 37 seconds
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2/10/2023 • 35 seconds
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2/9/2023 • 30 seconds
Mary
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2/8/2023 • 3 minutes, 17 seconds
I Walked in the House
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2/7/2023 • 2 minutes, 42 seconds
Personally Engraved
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2/6/2023 • 1 minute, 49 seconds
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2/5/2023 • 1 minute, 15 seconds
Night Singing
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2/4/2023 • 1 minute, 53 seconds
Politics
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2/3/2023 • 1 minute, 33 seconds
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2/2/2023 • 1 minute, 29 seconds
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2/1/2023 • 4 minutes, 28 seconds
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1/31/2023 • 47 seconds
La Prima Victoria
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1/30/2023 • 45 seconds
Vase Poppies
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1/29/2023 • 58 seconds
Mary, Color Scientist
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1/28/2023 • 5 minutes, 20 seconds
A March
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1/27/2023 • 1 minute, 36 seconds
“engendro vacíos”
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1/26/2023 • 35 seconds
Little God Origami
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1/25/2023 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
Maine Coast
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1/24/2023 • 3 minutes, 53 seconds
She Lived
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1/23/2023 • 29 seconds
Superstition
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1/22/2023 • 1 minute, 21 seconds
For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
1/21/2023 • 3 minutes, 1 second
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1/20/2023 • 1 minute, 6 seconds
To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell
1/19/2023 • 2 minutes, 33 seconds
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1/18/2023 • 1 minute, 21 seconds
My Mother Contemplating Her Gun
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1/17/2023 • 1 minute, 21 seconds
I Just Want to Live Long Enough to See Allen Iverson Live Long Enough to Get His Reebok Check
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1/16/2023 • 1 minute, 27 seconds
On Asking My Mother about Winter 1990
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1/15/2023 • 1 minute, 22 seconds
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1/14/2023 • 2 minutes, 11 seconds
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1/13/2023 • 2 minutes
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1/12/2023 • 14 minutes, 25 seconds
Delection Even
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1/11/2023 • 2 minutes, 48 seconds
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1/10/2023 • 1 minute, 11 seconds
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1/9/2023 • 1 minute, 1 second
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1/8/2023 • 36 seconds
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1/7/2023 • 1 minute, 26 seconds
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1/6/2023 • 46 seconds
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1/5/2023 • 1 minute, 42 seconds
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1/4/2023 • 2 minutes, 1 second
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1/3/2023 • 1 minute, 53 seconds
The Second Coming
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1/2/2023 • 1 minute, 24 seconds