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 Genevieve Shubeck. 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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Terrance Hayes: "Vintage Vanity"
6 min
402
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Love’s Language"
3 min
403
Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"
3 min
404
Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"
4 min
405
Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"
2 min
406
MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "
3 min
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Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"
2 min
408
William Moore: "Expectancy"
3 min
409
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"
3 min
410
Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"
3 min
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Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"
3 min
412
Youna Kwak: "After [I never feel so alive as wh...
2 min
413
Aldrin Regina Valdez: "January”
2 min
414
m.s. RedCherries: "playing america in spring
1 min
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Blanche Taylor Dickinson: "Things Said When He ...
3 min
416
Frank Barbour Coffin: "The Negro’s 'America'”
3 min
417
Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Edi...
23 min
418
Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
3 min
419
Catherine Bowman: "Pears"
3 min
420
James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"
1 min
421
Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"
2 min
422
Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the g...
8 min
423
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"
4 min
424
Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"
2 min
425
Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"
3 min