Audio Poem of the Day
Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day.
Held in the Arms of St. Francis & the Virgin
By Jasmine Gibson
This Most Perfect Hill
by Lisa Jarnot
Queerodactyl
By Roy G. Guzmán
My Last Duchess
At the Un-national Monument along the Canadian Border
To Judgment: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
To You
Death
By Donald Revell
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
By Ted Kooser
Essay on Craft
By Ocean Vuong
Chatty Cathy Villanelle
by David Trinidad
Rhapsody
By David St. John
The Impossible Replication of Desire
By Lee Herrick
Here
by Samuel Menashe (read by Quraysh Ali Lansana)
My Species
By Jane Hirshfield
The Obsoletion of a Language
By Kay Ryan
Reverie in Open Air
By Rita Dove
Ye Elves of Hills, Brooks, Standing Lakes and Groves
By William Shakespeare
Soften and Melt
By Alicia Ostriker
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
By Ted Kooser
P R N D
By Tyrone Williams
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
by Walt Whitman
Theories of Time and Space
By Natasha Trethewey
Sunlight
During Wind and Rain
By Thomas Hardy (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
A Pedestrian
by Amit Majmudar
Bath
by Stuart Dybek
Blandeur
By Kay Ryan
The Red Sea
By Stephen Edgar
To Arielle and the Moon
By David Trinidad
Late Melt
By Melissa Broder
Life of Savage
By Vijay Seshadri
Misgivings
By William Matthews
Sleep
By Samuel Menashe
Postlude
By William Carlos Williams
Staying Power
By Jeanne Murray Walker
Roadrunner
By André Naffis-Sahely
The Murder of William Remington
By Howard Nemerov
Song of a Hopeful Heart
By Dorothy Parker
Lacing
By Tacey M. Atsitty