Poetry Magazine

January/February 2025 Subscribe

January/February 2025

Dec2024 cover RGB

Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation

Poetry Magazine

January/February 2025 Subscribe

January/February 2025

Dec2024 cover RGB

Audio

If We Were Honest

December 14, 2024

By Albert Goldbarth

Related authors

Albert Goldbarth

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

More Episodes from Audio Poem of the Day

Showing 1-20 of 5,320 audio poems

Audio
Pops Dead Four Months. Remembering Pops Taught Me to Float on My Back. Watching “Moonlight” on My Delta Flight After Leaving Abuela Ana’s Casket with Abuelo’s in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Audio
América
Audio
The God of Inattention
Audio
We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had
Audio
As Capitalism Gasps for Breath I Watch the Knicks Game
Audio
Dworzec
Audio
My Gender Is a Red Stiletto or Grocery Store Feet
Audio
Big Snow
Audio
Landscape Made from Egg and Sperm
Audio
Untitled 1975–86 ["What sweet death I wish"]
Audio
Mother and Daughter at the Grand Hotel, Locarno, Switzerland
Audio
Gratophoph
Audio
The Book of Yeezus
Audio
Day After Day of the Dead
Audio
The Murder of William Remington
Audio
Song: To Celia
Audio
We Make Chia Pudding
Audio
sisters
Audio
Swing Low
Audio
Science Says

Jump to:

Poems & Poets
Topics & Themes
Features
Events & Programs
About Us

Poetry Foundation

Facebook Instagram

Contact Us
Newsletters
Press
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Poetry Mobile App

61 West Superior Street,
Chicago, IL 60654
© 2025 Poetry Foundation

See a problem on this page?