Audio Poem of the Day

Audio Poem of the Day

By: Poetry Foundation

Language: en-us

Categories: Arts, Books, Education

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

Episodes

Conversation 23: On Cause
Jan 10, 2026

by Rosmarie Waldrop


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Duration: 00:02:04
The Ostriches
Jan 09, 2026

By Dorothea Lasky


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Duration: 00:01:11
I Walked in the House
Jan 08, 2026

By Catherine Wagner


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Duration: 00:02:42
Goodwill, Buffalo, NY
Jan 07, 2026

By Kimberly Lyons


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Duration: 00:00:56
Misgivings
Jan 06, 2026

By William Matthews


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Duration: 00:01:25
/ FOR / AFTER / JAN BEATTY /
Jan 05, 2026

By Richard Blanco


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Duration: 00:03:59
Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)
Jan 04, 2026

By Monica Youn


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Duration: 00:09:21
Kitchen Table, or When Mildred Bailey Sings
Jan 03, 2026

By Kinsale Drake


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Duration: 00:01:04
Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
Jan 02, 2026

By Delmore Schwartz


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Duration: 00:01:35
Some Things Last
Jan 01, 2026

By Ahmad Almallah


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Duration: 00:01:55
yasmeen
Dec 31, 2025

By Safia Elhillo


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Duration: 00:01:35
What Is Life
Dec 30, 2025

By Gregory Orr


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Duration: 00:00:52
On form
Dec 29, 2025

By Josh English


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Duration: 00:09:15
Mushrooms
Dec 28, 2025

by Laura Kasischke


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Duration: 00:00:25
How to Incorporate a Town
Dec 27, 2025

By Steven Leyva


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Duration: 00:02:06
故乡的距离
Dec 26, 2025

By Enkehada


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Duration: 00:02:24
The Only Ones
Dec 25, 2025

By Harryette Mullen


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Duration: 00:01:02
Torn Coat
Dec 23, 2025

By Gerald Stern


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Duration: 00:00:53
Loving the “I”
Dec 22, 2025

By Kim Moore


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Duration: 00:02:28
Desire Path Near Equinox
Dec 21, 2025

By Donika Kelly


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Duration: 00:01:45
ABC for Refugees
Dec 20, 2025

By Monica Sok


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Duration: 00:01:27
Let Me Explain
Dec 19, 2025

By David Shook


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Duration: 00:01:40
Any
Dec 18, 2025

By George Bowering


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Duration: 00:01:07
Vestibule
Dec 17, 2025

By Chase Twichell


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Duration: 00:00:55
Paired Things
Dec 16, 2025

By Kay Ryan


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Duration: 00:00:45
Self Portrait
Dec 15, 2025

By Shara McCallum


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Duration: 00:01:24
Grass on the Cliff
Dec 14, 2025

by Robinson Jeffers


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Duration: 00:00:49
When I Stutter
Dec 13, 2025

By Elizabeth Meade


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Duration: 00:01:25
Lazy
Dec 12, 2025

by David Yezzi


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Duration: 00:01:25
To Be Alive
Dec 11, 2025

By Gregory Orr


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Duration: 00:00:32
A Voluptuous Dream During an Eclipse
Dec 10, 2025

By Elaine Kahn


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Duration: 00:01:15
The Future Is One of Place
Dec 09, 2025

By Brian Kim Stefans


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Duration: 00:00:59
Alone with the Goddess
Dec 08, 2025

By Linda Gregg


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Duration: 00:01:15
Heroic Simile
Dec 07, 2025

Robert Hass


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Duration: 00:02:49
Wanderlust
Dec 06, 2025

By Miguel A. Vega


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Duration: 00:01:39
I’m not excited by you
Dec 05, 2025

By Steven G Fullwood


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Duration: 00:00:44
Job Application
Dec 04, 2025

By Meryn Cadell


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Duration: 00:01:36
Mother Carey's Hen
Dec 03, 2025

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Duration: 00:01:11
Animal Caution
Dec 02, 2025

by Chase Twichell


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Duration: 00:00:47
On Intimacy
Dec 01, 2025

By Omotara James


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Duration: 00:07:27
On Hurricane Jackson
Nov 30, 2025

By Alan Dugan


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Duration: 00:01:06
Nation of Domination
Nov 29, 2025

By José Olivarez


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Duration: 00:01:03
syntax
Nov 28, 2025

By Latif Askia Ba


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Duration: 00:01:17
nail hard
Nov 27, 2025

By Samiya Bashir


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Duration: 00:01:23
Wind Shear
Nov 26, 2025

by Janice N. Harrington


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Duration: 00:01:28
from Doctor Drink, #1
Nov 25, 2025

by J. V. Cunningham


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Duration: 00:00:41
Back Soon; Driving—
Nov 24, 2025

By Carl Phillips


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Duration: 00:01:09
Ode to Black Skin
Nov 23, 2025

By Ashanti Anderson


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Duration: 00:01:19
Mango Head
Nov 22, 2025

By Shara McCallum


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Duration: 00:01:10
Mango Head
Nov 22, 2025

By Shara McCallum


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Duration: 00:01:10
A Not So Good Night in the San Pedro of the World
Nov 21, 2025

by Charles Bukowski


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Duration: 00:01:04
A Not So Good Night in the San Pedro of the World
Nov 21, 2025

by Charles Bukowski


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Duration: 00:01:04
The Room
Nov 20, 2025

By Elliot Figman


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Duration: 00:00:48
The Room
Nov 20, 2025

By Elliot Figman


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Duration: 00:00:48
Utang Na Loob
Nov 19, 2025

By Michelle Peñaloza


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Duration: 00:03:42
No Soldier Story
Nov 17, 2025

by Ish Klein


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Duration: 00:01:28
Little Blessing for Sparrows in Winter
Nov 16, 2025

by Jeanne Murray Walker (read by Dana Ivey)


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Duration: 00:01:02
Language Studies: ‘Ahooyawpe’ / From the Air
Nov 15, 2025

By Casandra López


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Duration: 00:01:41
Called
Nov 14, 2025

By Joanna Klink


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Duration: 00:01:32
REGIONAL ALL-STAR
Nov 13, 2025

By MICHAEL CHANG


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Duration: 00:00:52
From “R E D”
Nov 12, 2025

By Chase Berggrun


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Duration: 00:02:20
Our Side of the Creek
Nov 11, 2025

By Yusef Komunyakaa


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Duration: 00:01:30
After Someone’s Death
Nov 10, 2025

By Tomas Tranströmer
Tr. by Patty Crane


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Duration: 00:00:57
The Ode on a Grecian Urn
Nov 09, 2025

By Patricia Lockwood


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Duration: 00:04:13
Venus of Willendorf (Yeah, Baby, She's Got It) (feat. Sarah Baartman, Martha Wash, Izora Armstead)
Nov 08, 2025

By Maurice Moore


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Duration: 00:03:16
Tourist
Nov 07, 2025

By Sam Willetts


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Duration: 00:02:36
Light as a Shuttle
Nov 06, 2025

By Joyce Mansour

Tr. by Emilie Moorhouse


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Duration: 00:02:01
I Want to Read at the White House
Nov 05, 2025

by Joshua Clover


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Duration: 00:01:17
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Nov 04, 2025

By William Wordsworth


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Duration: 00:01:00
The Call
Nov 03, 2025

By Ellen June Wright


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Duration: 00:01:57
The Pain Reliever
Nov 02, 2025

By Carrie Olivia Adams


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Duration: 00:01:57
From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” [a potato]
Nov 01, 2025

By CAConrad


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Duration: 00:00:29
Waving Goodbye
Oct 31, 2025

By Gerald Stern


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Duration: 00:01:09
Happy Trigger
Oct 29, 2025

By Carmen Giménez Smith


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Duration: 00:00:41
midnight
Oct 28, 2025

By Toni Giselle Stuart


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Duration: 00:01:29
Skyland
Oct 27, 2025

by Brenda Iijima


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Duration: 00:01:52
Untitled, 2004
Oct 26, 2025

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Duration: 00:01:35
hastiin k’aalógii ’ání
Oct 25, 2025

By Manny Loley


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Duration: 00:00:44
Adult Acne
Oct 24, 2025

By Elaine Kahn


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Duration: 00:01:06
The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter
Oct 23, 2025

By Mark Strand


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Duration: 00:01:05
Talon
Oct 22, 2025

by Dabney Stuart (read by Ken Marks)


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Duration: 00:01:33
Unit of Measure
Oct 21, 2025

By Sandra Beasley


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Duration: 00:03:36
Allegory
Oct 20, 2025

By Diane Seuss


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Duration: 00:11:48
Beautiful Habit
Oct 19, 2025

By Tom Raworth


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Duration: 00:02:35
from “Lamentation”
Oct 18, 2025

By Rachel Tzvia Back


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Duration: 00:06:55
Physical Education
Oct 17, 2025

By Joshua Bennett


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Duration: 00:01:41
Precision German Craftsmanship
Oct 16, 2025

by Matthew Rohrer


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Duration: 00:01:28
Mingus at the Showplace
Oct 15, 2025

by William Matthews


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Duration: 00:01:20
Unsafe Surroundings
Oct 14, 2025

By Darius Atefat-Peckham


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Duration: 00:02:03
[Untitled]
Oct 13, 2025

By Kate Asche 


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Duration: 00:02:10
My Chiziiness
Oct 12, 2025

By Cynthia J Sylvester


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Duration: 00:05:04
Ash Weed
Oct 11, 2025

By Laura Marie Marciano


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Duration: 00:00:58
june 8, the smiley barista remembers my name
Oct 10, 2025

By Wo Chan


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Duration: 00:01:17
The Speedometer Is Working Even When You Don’t Move
Oct 09, 2025

By Heather Christie


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Duration: 00:01:05
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph
Oct 08, 2025

By Anne Sexton


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Duration: 00:01:04
Poeta en Nueva York
Oct 07, 2025

By Spencer Reece


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Duration: 00:10:51
The Lake
Oct 06, 2025

By Sophie Cabot Black


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Duration: 00:01:12
Flipping the Bird
Oct 05, 2025

By Ann-Margaret Lim


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Duration: 00:02:00
If You are Over Staying Woke
Oct 04, 2025

By Morgan Parker


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Duration: 00:01:43