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Today's poem is Untitled Poem by Sesshu Foster.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Ego by Denise Duhamel.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is To the Thawing Wind by Robert Frost.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing by Toi Derricotte.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Still Life with Aspirin by Lucie Brock-Broido.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is What Kind of Times Are These by Adrienne Rich.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Where There Were Steep Riverbanks by Circe Maia.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Circe by H.D.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Beehive by Jean Toomer.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg by Richard Hugo.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Punishment by Seamus Heaney.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is I Loved You Before I Was Born by Li-Young Lee.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Dancing Bear by Richard Scott.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is The Year I Had Cancer by Brad Buchanan.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Safe house by Busisiwe Mahlangu.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Big Finish by Kimberly Johnson.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is My Parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary by Aaron Smith.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Yoko by Thom Gunn.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is the break by Nate Marshall.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is When Vision Narrows To A Single Beam of Light by Eleanor Wilner.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Whipping Tree by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is A Room of Her Own by Ming Di.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is What's Left by Kerry Hardie.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is He Said by Gerald Stern.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Migraine: Aura and Aftermath by Claudia Emerson.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is To The Republic by Frank Bidart.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Record Changer by Adrian Matejka.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Michiko Dead by Jack Gilbert.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Burial by Koleka Putuma.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is First Will & Testament by sam sax.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Bored by Margaret Atwood.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is We Lived Happily During The War by Ilya Kaminsky.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Pearl by Dorianne Laux.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Backwards by Warsan Shire.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Thank You For Waiting by Simon Armitage.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Lake Michigan, Scene 3 by Daniel Borzutzky.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is I Just Hope I Can Sleep by Dorothea Lasky.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is "Poem for an Antique Korean Fishing Bobber" by Dobby Gibson.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is The Skylark by John Clare.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Love Poem by Donika Kelly.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Postcards from the Labyrinth by Johnny Lorenz.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is New World Orchestra by Ed Roberson.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is Philadelphia by Emily Skaja.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is stunt by Monique Ferrell.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["You don't seem to want it, but you wanted it"] by Terrance Hayes.By American Public Media.

Today's poem is The Sun Rising by John Donne.By American Public Media.