Audio Poem of the Day

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By: Poetry Foundation

Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day.

There Is No Meaning Here
#1853
Yesterday at 5:00 PM

By Christine Kanownik


Infanta Marina
#1852
Last Friday at 5:00 PM

by Wallace Stevens


Interlude
#1851
Last Thursday at 5:00 PM

By Denise Leto


When the Seed Spans the Length of the Fruit
#1850
Last Wednesday at 5:00 PM

By Omotara James


Hymn
#1849
Last Tuesday at 5:00 PM

By A.R. Ammons


The Farm
#1848
Last Monday at 5:00 PM

By Joyce Sutphen


between our legs all manner of
#1847
06/29/2025

By Valerie Martinez


Pain in the House
#1846
06/28/2025

By Eleanor Ross Taylor


Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing
#1845
06/27/2025

By Adam Wolfond


In the Surgical Ward
#1844
06/26/2025

By Carmen Calatayud 


American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Why are you bugging me…]
#1843
06/25/2025

By Terrance Hayes


Angel Nafis
#1842
06/24/2025

By Angel Nafis


Golden Hour [My hand out the car window:]
#1841
06/23/2025

By Huan He


blue
#1840
06/22/2025

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs


Black Momma Math
#1839
06/21/2025

By Kimberly Jae


Likeness: A Self-Portrait
#1838
06/20/2025

By Kimiko Hahn


Love Poem: Tulsidas
#1837
06/19/2025

By Timothy Liu


The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews
#1836
06/18/2025

By Amy Clampitt


Personally Engraved
#1835
06/17/2025

By Alice Fulton


From Citizen: “You are in the dark, in the car...”
#1834
06/16/2025

By Claudia Rankine


The Sky Keeps Surprises
#1833
06/15/2025

By Ahmad Almallah


Old Pro
#1832
06/14/2025

By Emanuel Xavier


Center
#1831
06/13/2025

By Josephine Miles


Uncouplings
#1830
06/11/2025

By Craig Arnold


Green Card :: Evidence of Adequate Means of Financial Support
#1829
06/10/2025

By Ae Hee Lee


Overheard in the Herd
#1828
06/09/2025

By Jorie Graham


Revelations in the Key of K
#1827
06/08/2025

By Mary Karr


REGIONAL ALL-STAR
#1826
06/07/2025

By MICHAEL CHANG


The Fourth Hour of the Night
#1825
06/06/2025

By Frank Bidart


Be More Like Björk
#1824
06/05/2025

By Camille Guthrie


Sleep [Pawnbroker, scavenger, cheapskate,]
#1823
06/04/2025

by Meghan O'Rourke


New Endymion
#1822
06/03/2025

By W. S. Di Piero


If Upon Me in My Garden
#1821
06/02/2025

By francine j harris 


Soft Knife
#1820
06/01/2025

By Jonathan W. Stohler


A Day on the Big Branch
#1819
05/31/2025

By Howard Nemerov


At Pegasus
#1818
05/30/2025

By Terrance Hayes


Fire and Ice
#1817
05/29/2025

By Robert Frost


The End of Exile
#1816
05/28/2025

By Solmaz Sharif


Sleep
#1815
05/27/2025

By Samuel Menashe


Bevy of Crows
#1814
05/26/2025

By Whitney Koo