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Poem of the Day: Every Hard Rapper’s Father Ever: Father of the Year
0:00 | May 20th
by Douglas Kearney
Poem of the Day: My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work
0:00 | May 5th
By Tiana Clark
Poem of the Day: Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
0:00 | Mar 28th
by Gerard Manley Hopkins (read by Mary Jo Bang)
Poem of the Day: from Don't Let Me Be Lonely: “Cornel West makes the point...”
0:00 | Mar 17th
By Claudia Rankine
Poem of the Day: From Citizen: “You are in the dark, in the car...”
0:00 | Feb 20th
By Claudia Rankine
Poem of the Day: Little Blessing for Sparrows in Winter
0:00 | Feb 19th
by Jeanne Murray Walker (read by Dana Ivey)
Poem of the Day: Relaxing or Voluntarily Having Dumb, Unpleasant Experiences
0:00 | Jan 17th
By Marie Buck
Poem of the Day: What to Do If You Find a Dead Hobbit in Your Garden
0:00 | Dec 26th, 2018
<p>By Murray Edmond</p>
Poem of the Day: Flowers from a New Love after the Divorce
0:00 | Dec 11th, 2018
<p>By Paisley Rekdal</p>
Poem of the Day: [Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]
0:00 | Dec 9th, 2018
<p>by Juan Felipe Herrera</p>
Poem of the Day: ABC Plus E: Cosmic Aloneness Is the Bride of Existence
0:00 | Dec 5th, 2018
By Mary Jo Bang
Poem of the Day: [I have become wealthy in a foreign land]
0:00 | Oct 22nd, 2018
<p>By Johannes Göransson</p>
Poem of the Day: God's Grandeur
0:00 | Oct 19th, 2018
<p>By Gerard Manley Hopkins (read by Hugh Schwartzberg)</p>
Poem of the Day: Invocation to Convince a Baby Already Twelve Days Overdue to Come Out
0:00 | Oct 6th, 2018
<p>By Jeanne Murray Walker</p>
Poem of the Day: Buy a Chimney Cap, I Think, Then
0:00 | Sep 21st, 2018
<p>by David Swerdlow (read by Ken Marks)</p>
Poem of the Day: All Kinds of Fires Inside Our Heads
0:00 | Sep 20th, 2018
<p>By Nikki Wallschlaeger</p>
Poem of the Day: “A furnace in my father’s voice; I prayed for the coal stove’s”
0:00 | Sep 15th, 2018
By Ishion Hutchinson
Poem of the Day: Ode on a Grecian Urn
0:00 | Sep 4th, 2018
By John Keats (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
Poem of the Day: The Flowers
0:00 | Aug 22nd, 2018
<p>by Don Paterson (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)</p>
Poem of the Day: On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes
0:00 | Aug 21st, 2018
By Mary Szybist
Poem of the Day: Monster [It's possible I misconstrued you]
0:00 | Aug 2nd, 2018
<p>by Brook Emery</p>
Poem of the Day: To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street
0:00 | Jul 16th, 2018
By Franny Choi
Poem of the Day: Conversation 9: On Varieties of Oblivion
0:00 | Jul 1st, 2018
<p>by Rosmarie Waldrop</p>
Poem of the Day: Doña Josefina Counsels Doña Concepción Before Entering Sears
0:00 | Jun 30th, 2018
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">By Maurice Kilwein Guevara</span></p>
Poem of the Day: Songs of the Transformed
0:00 | Jun 27th, 2018
by Margaret Atwood (read by Melissa Severin)
Poem of the Day: from Don't Let Me Be Lonely: “At the airport security checkpoint...”
0:00 | Jun 9th, 2018
<p>By Claudia Rankine</p>
Poem of the Day: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (excerpt)
0:00 | May 28th, 2018
<p>By Samuel Taylor Coleridge</p>
Poem of the Day: Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Was Another Child First
0:00 | May 12th, 2018
<p>By Shane McCrae</p>
Poem of the Day: Mom Betty Addresses the Nature of Proportion
0:00 | May 9th, 2018
<p>By Eileen R. Tabios</p>
Poem of the Day: North of Mist
0:00 | Mar 30th, 2018
<p>by Wendy Videlock (read by Christina Kirk)</p>
Poem of the Day: from Don't Let Me Be Lonely: “I don't usually talk to strangers...”
0:00 | Mar 19th, 2018
<p>By Claudia Rankine</p>
Poem of the Day: The Beginning of the Fields
0:00 | Mar 10th, 2018
by Angela Shaw (read by Barbara Rosenblatt)
Poem of the Day: That Loud-Assed Colored Silence: Modernity #2
0:00 | Feb 25th, 2018
by Douglas Kearney