Poem-a-Day
Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
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Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
1452
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1453
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1454
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1455
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1456
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1457
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1458
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1459
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1460
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1461
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1462
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1463
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1464
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1465
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1466
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1467
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1468
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1469
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1470
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1471
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1472
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1473
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1474
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1475
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min