One Poem Only

One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is She Identifies as Unbri...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is Once a Palm Reader Told Me by Tabitha Dial after Ariel Kasha. Read the ful...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is Unfurled by Monica C. Crum after Cradle by Meagan Sexton. Read the full po...

One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is Year of the Skin by San...

A daily reading from One Poem Only—a quiet space for a single poem, read aloud. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is How to See in Color by Allison Dean after On the Roof I See (orig...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is Let Go Of by Poetically Nikki after Crushed Peaches in Palm by Paige Kelle...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is Ink and Iron by Edyth G. after Mastering the Pen by Ellie Augustin. Read t...

One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is First Crash by Lee Mart...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is The Bee’s Knees by Amelia Wicker after To Be a Salamander by Rachel Turney...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is All I Have by Rachel Turney after Not mine anymore by Avalon. Read the ful...

One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is by Kay Medway after But...

A daily reading from One Poem Only—a quiet space for a single poem, read aloud. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is Hawk Feather by Connie Helena after Peyton Michelle Bryant. Read...

One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is Dear Unknown Ancestor N...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is Bones by Toni Young after Ugly Bones by Ella B. Winters. Read the full poe...

One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise. This month, One Poem Only presents One Poem After , featuring selected poems written in response to the poems shared during National Poetry Month. Each piece began as a conversation with another poem and became something entirely its own. Today’s poem is Taco Bell under a Full...

One Poem More gathers all of this week’s poems from One Poem Only—an unhurried chance to listen again, or catch what you missed. This week’s poems Life Is The Backside of Embroidery by Aasfa Siddiqui Unnamed Season by Jules Travers “Hija de tu madre.” by Elisha Fernandez Lilies by Madilyn Lopez Rash by Viviana Abnur Sparrowfall by Arch Budzar Plus one new one to carry us into the week ahead YOLO M...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. Sparrowfall Arch Budzar While maybe I wasn’t the smartest Or the strongest I never thought unkindly of you And I always sang my song And I Saw you as an angel Up until the very end. More from Arch Budzar ↓ @archbudzar on Instagram You can find more information about their life and work, as well as prints of their art at www.arc...

One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise. Rash Viviana Abnur Everything I know about death I learned the hard way when I saw you go by on the stretcher to intensive therapy I was an atheist like you and I only saw a slight and strange body pass at the speed of light is it that perhaps we live confused or we are just li...

A daily reading from One Poem Only—a quiet space for a single poem, read aloud. Lilies Madilyn Lopez blood gushes from underneath my index fingers underneath my thumbs my eyes go white and pin-point black bloodshot— my artery. my throat seals itself shut like a wooden door stuck in humidity’s clutch i tilt my chin to the popcorn ceiling gasping for air that’s already escaped Lilies are my favorite...

Wednesdays on One Poem Only are Handpicked, a new feature where I go deeper into the poem of the day and discuss what made it stand out to me. “Hija de tu madre.” Elisha Fernandez “Eres hija de tu madre.” “You are your mother’s daughter,” is a phrase I heard growing up, from strangers, family members, friends, most repeated by my own mother. I wanted to claw myself out of my skin Panicked by the i...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. Unnamed Season Jules Travers He lives in a peaceful territory of his own, relatively well-defined. In conversation with his selves, he navigates daily weather, rainbows, mirages, sinkholes. Now, can he still live with himself, with you? Your eyes align, two shapes of water join, sun-lit, know themselves reflected. He feels your...

One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise. Life Is the Backside Of Embroidery by Aasfa Siddiqui Aasfa Siddiqui I’ve been thinking about it lately life feels like the backside of embroidery. All I see are the knots, threads pulling in opposite directions, lines crossing with no pattern, like someone stitched it blindfold...

One Poem More gathers all of this week’s poems from One Poem Only—an unhurried chance to listen again, or catch what you missed. This week’s poems “Words don’t even flow to me anymore” by Lisa Le Guiader The Return of Titans by Kate M. Sine Sunday Ritual by Evyan Roberts Prince of Marble by Auri Tunglsdottir Ice Box Woes by JACK"E" Women of Stardust and Soil by Steph Patterson Plus one new one to...

One Poem Only is a daily ritual: one poem, center stage, just for now. Women of Stardust and Soil Steph Patterson We start as stardust and then soil, we become, Underneath our feet the bones sing of so many women before us, Their whispers form tendrils winding up to tip into your ear, Their stories will not be forgotten as the earth holds their proof of life, When their voices rose in anger and de...

One Poem Only is a daily poetry podcast offering a quiet moment with a single poem—read aloud, without analysis or noise. Ice Box Woes JACK”E” This freezing and thawing dosey doe the outdoors has frosted over ice falls often, putting the Ice Man of history in balmy palms though I hear the sunshine is dim in the panhandle. A chuck roast whose rump has frozen rock salt sprinkling if this is dinner I...