AudioPoetry

Good

By Robin Myers February 5, 2024

For a while there was a mantra and it went like this.

AudioPoetry

Southern Sonnet

By Zeina Hashem Beck February 5, 2024

I’m trying to write you a love song but / the news overspills as I boil coffee.

AudioPoetry

Good Mourning Palestine

By Samah Serour Fadil January 16, 2024

Gooood Mourning Pa-les-tiiiiiiiiiine!

AudioPoetry

Song

By Tracy Fuad December 11, 2023

Sometimes it was just a humming / Which came through the windows at night

AudioPoetry

[The Tip of the Stalk]

By Ernst Meister, translated from German by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick November 6, 2023

The tip of the stalk / draws / the tossed flower —

AudioPoetry

Histories

By Mandy Moe Pwint Tu October 2, 2023

In 1988 our fledgling nation drowned again in blood and clamshell clanging, oh how holy the flesh on pagoda stairs

AudioPoetry

Diversity Statement

By Gustav Parker Hibbett September 5, 2023

In the years that formed me, I poured myself into classes, hobbies, extracurriculars I was told you’d like: Latin, Mandarin, Multivariable Calculus, Swimming, AP Physics.

EducationRace

AudioPoetry

Closure

By Omotara James June 5, 2023

My parents were scheduled to divorce on Valentine’s Day.

AudioPoetry

Abstraction

By Lindsay Turner May 1, 2023

A cheap print of an aspen grove / In the exam room

AudioPoetry

Infix

By Chris Santiago May 1, 2023

What happens when fantastic / becomes fan-fucking-tastic

AudioPoetry

Daydream

By Tuệ Sỹ, translated by Nguyen Ba Chung and Martha Collins May 1, 2023

Riding an ant, we seek a fairy’s cave / A realm of long life, where butterflies flutter

AudioPoetry

Noon

By Phoebe Giannisi, translated by Brian Sneeden May 1, 2023

a row of cypresses towered over the road / we knelt at the water’s source

AudioPoetry

I Want, Still

By Dure Ahmed April 17, 2023

Today I am empty, fasting till sundown

Anthologia

AudioPoetry

Paper Hummingbirds

By Myronn Hardy April 5, 2023

I’m afraid of what’s beyond the dishes / we wash in retrieved lake water.

AudioPoetry

At the Gallery

By Kwame Dawes April 5, 2023

Finally at the gallery, the couple (all fiction of them), / she in that white bustier, he with the cutout

AudioPoetry

From Guerrilla Blooms

By Daniela Catrileo, translated by Edith Adams April 5, 2023

I look in the mirror / I look at the Indian women

AudioPoetry

In-N-Out for Iftar

By Tamer Mostafa March 20, 2023

The car in front stalls

AudioPoetry

Ism

By Sarah Ghazal Ali March 20, 2023

The name of God is sufficient / for me.

Religion

AudioPoetry

From Here

By Edil Hassan March 20, 2023

Build your life on white, on silence and on stillness.

AudioPoetry

Low Flying Planes

By Hajjar Baban February 20, 2023

A mirrorless story. My father’s mother’s name.

Anthologia

AudioPoetry

Gravitational Constant

By Alicia Mountain November 30, 2022

Even after some time, I am still the weeping wound in the houseplant, / tearing easily.

AudioPoetry

Wrong Distance

By Elizabeth Metzger November 16, 2022

Don’t you miss me as if I were dead? // That’s how you’d like to be loved.

AudioPoetry

(De)Composition

By Alexa Luborsky November 2, 2022

there will be no more baptisms

AudioPoetry

Eulogy

By Anthony Aguero October 26, 2022

The officer’s fists on the door

AudioPoetry

Radical Surgeon of My Own Life

By Jessica Abughattas October 19, 2022

To wait for something to open, that’s optimism.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Aubade

By Marco Yan October 5, 2022

Another year of rain and terrible air, then I see the street again —

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Brief History

By Gbenga Adesina September 28, 2022

The night the flag of the British empire came down / in my country, the cry of a mottled wolf was heard in the wild.

AudioPoetry

Cruel World As a Litany Of Stars

By Haolun Xu September 21, 2022

Forgive me, I did not mean to copy your life.

AudioPoetry

Irrawaddy Delta, 2016

By Maung Day August 3, 2022

A grain of rice cannot feed a hundred mouths

AudioPoetry

Search Party

By Steven Espada Dawson July 20, 2022

Together, above the kitchen sink, we peeled / a hundred russets.

Family & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Bringing Up Mother

By Idman Omar July 13, 2022

I was not dressed correctly when / motherhood interviewed me.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Lived Here

By Tarik Dobbs July 6, 2022

My Birth State can’t possibly drive interest

AudioPoetry

If I Say My Body Is Asian Does This Poem Disappear

By Eugenia Leigh June 29, 2022

Another poem mannequin- / Ing the body.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

The Christmas Poem

By Jackson Holbert June 15, 2022

there are thousands of days left / tens of thousands if we’re lucky

Arts & Culture

AudioPoetry

A Poem Is a Landscape of the Mind

By Megan Pinto June 8, 2022

It was the winter of my life. Afternoons, / I watched light fade / from the faces of brownstones.

AudioPoetry

When the Sky Is Closed

By Mark Yakich June 1, 2022

Not even children who brave the street / Will notice the robins, mistaking them for nightingales.

AudioPoetry

Cut Off

By R/B Mertz May 11, 2022

The last man who touched my tits cut them off

AudioPoetry

Vigilance

By H. R. Webster April 27, 2022

The hottest summer on record I couldn’t open the windows.

AudioPoetry

AFTER SEVEN YEARS I’M HOME AGAIN & ANIMAL AS EVER

By Despy Boutris April 14, 2022

I think back / to childhood— // to this state / & its former rainfall

AudioPoetry

Girl from

By Vandana Khanna March 30, 2022

I tell the oracles that no one has touched / me, that plenty have looked, drunk their fill / on my (   ).

Gender

AudioPoetry

Without Them

By Bernardo Wade March 23, 2022

Thirsty / doesn’t describe what we’re looking for, / yet for some it means desperate for another’s touch.

Climate & Environment

AudioPoetry

A Barn of Many Languages

By Saddiq Dzukogi March 16, 2022

my tongue is at war with a new language

AudioPoetry

Tenement

By Kellam Ayres February 23, 2022

I’d been undoing myself for years. / Why would this day be any different?

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Swing

By N. K. A. Prempeh January 26, 2022

At some point, fathers stop unraveling / in private, don’t they?

AudioPoetry

Extended Release

By Lesley Wheeler January 19, 2022

I won’t know how to daughter till it’s done.

AudioPoetry

Earning Keep

By Sophie Klahr October 26, 2021

“You can see the pure it-ness / of anything if you cut it right”

AudioPoetry

The Daughter Myth

By Vuyelwa Maluleke October 14, 2021

“Say then that I am overflowing / & nobody’s fool & did not give up"

AudioPoetry

My Mom Buried a Saint in the Yard

By Laura Villareal August 12, 2021

Not like you think, but yes, he’s upside down.

Family & Relationships

AudioPoetry

The Women

By Maggie Queeney July 29, 2021

more than the men, even. The ones who looked / like I looked.

Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Metamorphic Sonnet

By Eric Wang June 3, 2021

How could I not praise the Chinese grandmother / rocking her floral print tracksuit?

AudioPoetry

Bulbous with an Egregious Silence

By Joseph Omoh Ndukwu May 27, 2021

“while the aunties sit weaving an awful dress of effrontery / —and I wish we could be alive in several ways but this one”

Family & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Man at Desk

By Rigoberto González May 13, 2021

There’s a man who sits at his desk this evening, / bearing witness to the end of days.

AudioPoetry

Ordnance

By Steven Duong April 8, 2021

“The world is a list of things / I keep from my father.”

Family & RelationshipsHistory

AudioPoetry

LOS ÁNGELES

By Cintia Santana March 18, 2021

We’re going to see the angels / my father says but in Spanish

Family & RelationshipsHistory

AudioPoetry

Home

Poetry by Jamaica Baldwin July 17, 2020

I was mesmerized by how willing her skin / was to leave her.

Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

The Empty City

Poetry by Michael Bazzett January 10, 2020

I went to the doctor and found out / there is an empty city inside me.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Milk Teeth

Poetry by Gale Marie Thompson December 23, 2019

I lean my open neck against yours. / The miracle always returns with a hunger.

Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

indelible in the hippocampus

Poetry by Caroline Crew August 20, 2019

Memory is no solid monument but liquid’s / twins of substance and ceaseless swell.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Auto-Immune

By Destiny Birdsong February 27, 2019

I am destined to infuse / survival with meaning, like honey clotting in syringes.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Etymology.

Poetry by sam sax August 24, 2018

the etymology of gun is hunger

Conflict

AudioPoetry

Poet Wrestling with the Possibility She’s Living in a Simulation

Poetry by Rosebud Ben-Oni June 25, 2018

One simulation to another, am I wrong.

Bodies & NatureTechnology & the Future

AudioPoetry

you’ve always been a border simulator

Poetry by Gabriel Dozal May 7, 2018

you have trouble saying your name and you say it anyway

Deserts ConflictTechnology & the Future

AudioPoetry

[My cadastre of flesh]

By Khal Torabully, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson April 30, 2018

My cadastre of flesh / dissects me right to the bone

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Edge of the Wild

Poetry by Leah Umansky April 4, 2018

I am so afraid of being troubled and alone at the end of this world

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

History

By Melissa Ginsburg March 9, 2018

We kept the kills quiet / amid rows of pale clover

Bodies & NatureConflict

AudioPoetry

Some Call It Bounty

Poetry by Alexa Doran February 28, 2018

Before you were born I binge-watched Hoarders.

Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Rooms

Poetry by Rewa Zeinati January 19, 2018

We used to think that refugees / were of one kind / and we never knew / that we were too.

Conflict

AudioPoetry

Notes on Inheritance

Poetry by Chelsea Dingman January 12, 2018

I stretch my neck into the next life.

Bodies & NatureGender

AudioPoetry

An Iranian Rat Prepares for Space Flight

Poetry by Robin LaMer Rahija January 8, 2018

I have no name unless I make / it back alive

Climate & EnvironmentTechnology & the Future

AudioPoetry

At Mercier Orchards

Poetry by James Davis May December 15, 2017

we believe in ourselves / more than we believe in anything else

Conflict

AudioPoetry

Where Papi’s Angel Speaks to Me About Love

Poetry by Willy Palomo November 29, 2017

mijo—i know you have seen the night / as an excuse to hold your body like a bottle

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

The last dog in the world

Poetry by Sarah Messer November 15, 2017

What are days? Just him and / the left-over spiders.

Climate & EnvironmentPoliticsTechnology & the Future

AudioPoetry

Unfinished

By Fritz Ward October 25, 2017

This is where our devouring / comes home

AudioPoetry

On a Lamp Post Long Ago

By Ada Limón October 11, 2017

in case we have forgotten the word love, we will know its symbol

AudioPoetry

I Give You My Heart/Os doy mi corazón

By Ricardo Alberto Maldonado October 10, 2017

A poem for Puerto Rico.

Climate & EnvironmentUSA

AudioPoetry

Je Suis Sally

Poetry by Chet’la Sebree September 27, 2017

"I am black wench, / wench Sally, African Venus, Sarah Hemings"

AudioPoetry

After Dinner

By Sasha Pimentel August 21, 2017

The serrated are only / 
for dining, the curved ones for husking / 
muscle from the bone

Conflict

AudioPoetry

Black stars fill up black sky—

By Dawn Lundy Martin July 24, 2017

When the opal stone appears, I’ll lean into it. But terror is a runaway train.

AudioPoetry

The Dead Woman

By Michael Bazzett July 17, 2017

This is how we knew she had / already died at least once.

Bodies & Nature

AudioLivesNews

The Fallout

By Lacy M. Johnson July 10, 2017

In St. Louis, America's nuclear history creeps into the present, leaching into streams and bodies.

Climate & Environment

AudioPoetry

Subterfuge

By Mai Der Vang May 22, 2017

Maybe you spiked the dirt / With your snare of shivers.

Conflict

AudioPoetry

The Song of Empty Rooms

By Wale Owoade March 27, 2017

Your voice is my favorite album, / you left but your bones are still here.

Family & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Oasis

By Beth Bachmann March 13, 2017

We want what God wants: to be pure.

Bodies & NatureClimate & EnvironmentReligion

AudioPoetry

Number Love, My Taxes

By Alicia Mountain January 23, 2017

how we are so many dependents, / how one headlight will do for now

Bodies & NatureFamily & RelationshipsWork & Money

AudioPoetry

Hive

By M'Bilia Meekers January 9, 2017

My name // came reeling towards me from a net / of insects that said it was your mouth.

AfricaConflictFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Neck of the Woods

By Amy Woolard December 26, 2016

One girl might leave a trail of crumbs / Behind her. One might leave a line of poured-out gasoline.

Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Fourth Algorithm

By Terrell Jamal Terry November 7, 2016

I have trouble naming myself / In a language I can find.

Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Labor Day

By sam sax June 15, 2016

any word traced to its origin is a small boy begging for water

The Future of Cities Bodies & NatureConflict

AudioPoetry

Migrant Is Not a Metaphor

By Cynthia Dewi Oka June 15, 2016

A migrant learns to love as mothers do, by trying and trying again.

The Future of Cities ConflictPolitics

AudioReport

Brooklyn Bound

By Dwyer Murphy June 1, 2016

The fight to extradite El Chapo.

AmericasConflictGovernmentPolitics

AudioPoetry

Tenebrae

By R. A. Villanueva June 1, 2016

Praise instead the night, its starless, basilica void.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Let’s Not Begin

By Maggie Smith June 1, 2016

Worry and console, worry and console: it’s how I stay in shape.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Tassiopeia

By Kaveh Akbar May 16, 2016

I came out hot as a punched jaw

Bodies & NatureReligion

AudioPoetry

Asylum

By Hala Alyan May 16, 2016

They said burn the keys but only our hair caught fire.

Conflict

AudioPoetry

She Walked In / She Walked Out

By Roberto Montes May 2, 2016

Whatever you touched grew more like itself

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

How Easy to Live with Choice

By Esther Lin April 15, 2016

Oh it’s a gold rush of expectations this place.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Apocalypse with Bed Sheets

By Brian Clifton April 1, 2016

I pick him up, and he unravels into a sheet.

Family & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Hyel’s Zumbi

By jayy dodd April 1, 2016

Call his neck plum, when it bruises say the skin makes it easy to digest.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Straight to the jawline bloody Igor

By Shelly Taylor March 15, 2016

Trumpets skyward, you know about it, side eye, you know how goes silence in the rock-n-roll

The Future of Language Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Twentieth-First Century

By Samuel Amadon March 15, 2016

I vote with my feet. I vote with my wallet. I vote in person with my vote.

The Future of Language Politics