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

Audio Poem of the Day Poetry Foundation

    • Arts
    • 4.4 • 319 Ratings

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

    The Window, at the Moment of Flame

    The Window, at the Moment of Flame

    By Alicia Ostriker

    • 1 min
    Invocation to Convince a Baby Already Twelve Days Overdue to Come Out

    Invocation to Convince a Baby Already Twelve Days Overdue to Come Out

    By Jeanne Murray Walker

    • 1 min
    Arequipa

    Arequipa

    By Ben Okri

    • 1 min
    How Much?

    How Much?

    By Carl Sandburg

    • 33 sec
    Lilacs on my Birthday

    Lilacs on my Birthday

    By Joyce Peseroff

    • 1 min
    Tarp

    Tarp

    By Rick Barot

    • 1 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
319 Ratings

319 Ratings

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It's good, but the website doesn't match the podcast feed? can't access the transcripts of the poems.

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Great

Thank you for providing poetry with no intro music or contextual explanation. I fall asleep to this podcast.

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Author/reader please

Please have the reader say the name of the author before or after the poem. Thank you

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