Audio Poem of the Day

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Love Looks Not with the Eyes
#2151
Yesterday at 5:00 PM

By William Shakespeare


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Enough
#2150
Last Monday at 5:00 PM

By Katie Peterson


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The Big Running River
#2149
Last Sunday at 5:00 PM

By Guangzi


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Photo of a Girl on a Beach
#2148
Last Saturday at 5:00 PM

By Carmen Giménez Smith


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I do not mention the war in my birthplace to my six-year-old son but somehow his body knows
#2147
Last Friday at 5:00 PM

By Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach


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[To be crippled means to be institutionalized]
#2146
Last Thursday at 5:00 PM

By Jennifer Bartlett


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The Dim Tenements
#2145
04/29/2026

By D. Nurske


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To What You Said
#2144
04/28/2026

By Walt Whitman


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Migraine as Whale: A Triptych
#2143
04/27/2026

By Sarah M. Sala


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A Lump of Pure Sound
#2142
04/26/2026

By Mairead Staid Small


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After Roethke
#2141
04/25/2026

By Randall Mann


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Gargantuan Origination: Inscription for the Collages of Dean Smith
#2140
04/24/2026

By Will Alexander


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Non Redibimus
#2139
04/23/2026

By Jill Essbaum


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telling my lover not to evacuate the fire i am fighting
#2138
04/22/2026

By Ibe Liebenberg


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Utang Na Loob
#2137
04/21/2026

By Michelle Peñaloza


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If Upon Me in My Garden
#2136
04/20/2026

By francine j harris 


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From “Chronicle of Drifting”
#2135
04/19/2026

By Yuki Tanaka


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Plaster [“In this song a drum takes itself apart”]
#2134
04/18/2026

By Nathanael Jones


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Family Dollar
#2133
04/17/2026

By Hannah Brooks-Motl


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I Was Lt. Uhura
#2132
04/16/2026

By January Gill O’Neil


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Shopping for One
#2131
04/15/2026

By Neal Bowers


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Sky Glee
#2130
04/14/2026

By Jane Flett


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The Impossible Replication of Desire
#2129
04/13/2026

By Lee Herrick


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#2128
04/12/2026

By Oliver Baez Bendorf


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From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” [a potato]
#2127
04/11/2026

By CAConrad


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Romer’s Gap
#2126
04/10/2026

By Tian Ai


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Here
#2125
04/09/2026

by Samuel Menashe (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)


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My Understanding One Day of Foxgloves
#2124
04/08/2026

by John Lee Clark (read by Barbara Rosenblatt)


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Real
#2123
04/07/2026

By Rae Armantrout


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“For you: anthophilous, lover of flowers”
#2122
04/06/2026

By Reginald Dwayne Betts


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The truth of the picture
#2121
04/05/2026

By Kacper Bartczak

Tr. by Mark Tardi


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Victory Parade
#2120
04/04/2026

By Frederick Seidel


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And That
#2119
04/03/2026

By Raymond Antrobus


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Outbound
#2118
04/02/2026

By Hieu Minh Nguyen


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Instruction upon Arrival
#2117
04/01/2026

By Dan Vera


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Off on Holiday
#2116
03/31/2026

By Kira Alexis Tucker


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Thanking Master Zhang with a Poem (Cantonese)
#2115
03/30/2026

By Susan Wan Dolling


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The Second Slaughter
#2114
03/28/2026

By Lucia Perillo


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A crush of oily plant and treated white
#2113
03/27/2026

By Joan Houlihan


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Prayer Circle
#2112
03/26/2026

By Sa Whitley


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