Audio Poem of the Day

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The Muse of Ocean Springs, Mississippi
#2328
Last Saturday at 5:00 PM

By Rodney Jones


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Birdsong, face it, some male machine
#2327
Last Friday at 5:00 PM

By Marianne Boruch


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Kindness
#2326
Last Thursday at 5:00 PM

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Poem Beginning with Lines by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#2325
Last Wednesday at 5:00 PM

By Jack Underwood


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How I learned to hold grief at such a young age
#2324
Last Tuesday at 5:00 PM

By Kinsale Drake


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The Only Ones
#2323
10/26/2026

By Harryette Mullen


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For the Cult-Themed Party
#2322
10/25/2026

By Jacques J Rancourt


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The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First
#2321
10/24/2026

By Mary Oliver (read by Eliza Foss)


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Notes after Watching the Inauguration
#2320
10/23/2026

By KB Brookins


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Such Simple Love
#2319
10/22/2026

By Thomas McGrath


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Border Wisdom
#2318
10/21/2026

By Ahmad Almallah


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To Whom It May Concern
#2317
10/20/2026

By Andrea Cohen


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The Doors
#2316
10/19/2026

by David St. John


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Risk Management Song
#2315
10/18/2026

By Lindsay Turner


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天涯海角
#2314
10/17/2026

By Jidimajia


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Figure
#2313
10/16/2026

By Josephine Miles


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The Power of a Question
#2312
10/15/2026

by Gabriel Preil (read by Ken Marks)


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Something With a Lifespan
#2311
10/14/2026

By Katie Peterson


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Everything Here... in the voice of Tara Fares
#2310
10/13/2026

By Joumana Altallal


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Invictus
#2309
10/12/2026

By William Ernest Henley (read by Dana Ivey)


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Ever Vigilant Julius V. Combs, MD
#2308
10/11/2026

By Melba Boyd


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Staying Power
#2307
10/10/2026

By Jeanne Murray Walker


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ART IV: Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks
#2306
10/08/2026

By Haki R Madhubuti


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The Editor's Ex
#2305
10/07/2026

By Caitlin Doyle


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From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” [the angel]
#2304
10/06/2026

By CAConrad


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I’m rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time
#2303
10/05/2026

By Arianna Monet


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Ark
#2302
10/04/2026

By Enrique S. Villasis

Tr. by Bernard Kean Capinpin


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In Wartime
#2301
10/03/2026

By Raafat Hekmat


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When My Beloved Proenza Schouler Tries to Sell Lei for $1,500
#2300
10/02/2026

By Noelani Piters


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The Dry Bones
#2299
09/30/2026

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Afternoon Notes
#2298
09/29/2026

By Wendy Xu


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The Truth
#2297
09/28/2026

By Tim Dlugos


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Monsoon Eclogue
#2296
09/27/2026

Srikanth Reddy


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Shipwreck in Haven, Part Five
#2295
09/26/2026

by Keith Waldrop


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Pe‘ahi Light
#2294
09/25/2026

By Arthur Sze


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Enter Tears
#2293
09/24/2026

By Dalia Taha 

Tr. by Sara Elkamel 


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Ariadne
#2292
09/23/2026

By Jeanne Murray Walker


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even the rocks are dying
#2291
09/22/2026

By marion eames white


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The Selvage
#2290
09/21/2026

By Linda Gregerson


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Sweeping the States
#2289
09/20/2026

by Jacob Saenz


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