Audio Poem of the Day

1½ mins | M Tu W Th F

Classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day.

Episodes

Temptation of the Rope

Oct 20, 5 PM | 1½ mins

North of Mist

Oct 18, 5 PM | 50 secs

Spring Music

Oct 17, 5 PM | 60 secs

If You are Over Staying Woke

Oct 15, 5 PM | 1½ mins

Page

Oct 14, 5 PM | 2½ mins

artificial death

Oct 13, 5 PM | 1½ mins

Ode to Coffee / Oda al Café

Oct 12, 5 PM | 1½ mins

The History of Jazz

Oct 11, 5 PM | 4 mins

Ode to Black Skin

Oct 10, 5 PM | 1½ mins

Elegy a Little

Oct 9, 5 PM | 2½ mins

Station

Oct 8, 5 PM | 1 min

When the Devil Leads Us Home and Yells Surprise

Oct 7, 5 PM | 1 min

In Chicano Park

Oct 6, 5 PM | 2 mins

Except for Being It Was Relatively Painless

Oct 5, 5 PM | 1½ mins

Passing

Oct 4, 5 PM | 3½ mins

He Lit a Fire with Icicles

Oct 3, 5 PM | 1 min

The Tongue

Oct 2, 5 PM | 2 mins

Among the Gorgons

Oct 1, 5 PM | 1½ mins

Ode to the Tiniest Dessert Spoon in All Creation

Sep 30, 5 PM | 3 mins

Fault Whispers

Sep 29, 5 PM | 1 min

Marcus Aurelius Rose

Sep 28, 5 PM | 1 min

Conversion Comedy

Sep 27, 5 PM | 3 mins

Iraqi Boy

Sep 26, 5 PM | 1½ mins

The Portrait

Sep 25, 5 PM | 20 secs

Adam Means Earth

Sep 24, 5 PM | 50 secs

The Song of the Birds

Sep 23, 5 PM | 30 secs

The Other Side

Sep 22, 5 PM | 2 mins

Eponymous

Sep 21, 5 PM | 50 secs

The Aureole

Sep 20, 5 PM | 3½ mins

To Robert Hayden

Sep 19, 5 PM | 1 min