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 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 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 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 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 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 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