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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D. H. Lawrence: "New Year’s Eve"
3 min
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Mary Weston Fordham: "Passing of the Old Year"
4 min
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Bob Holman: "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
4 min
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Edwin Torres: "túmba la caña jibarito"
4 min
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Myrna Nieves: "My Dead Relatives"
4 min
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Urayoán Noel: "sueño convulso (seizure dream)"
5 min
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Nancy Mercado: "2020 A Year to Forget"
2 min
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Alberto Ríos: "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
6 min
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Charlotte Brontë: "Winter Stores"
4 min
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Sheila Maldonado: "herederos de cero"
3 min
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David Henderson: "Blues Franchise"
4 min
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Andrei Codrescu: "my yoga teacher kassandra"
2 min
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Carlos Manuel Rivera: "Thanatos and Technophilia"
3 min
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Sahar Romani: "Sign"
3 min
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Alice Meynell: "West Wind in Winter"
3 min
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Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald: "A Winter Day"
5 min
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Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
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Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
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Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
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Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
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Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
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Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
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Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
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Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min