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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Joy Ladin: “Forgetting”
3 min
402
Pramila Venkateswaran: “Body Language”
3 min
403
Julia Kolchinsky: “Naming”
4 min
404
Tarfia Faizullah: “Wait Until It Grows Roots”
1 min
405
Naomi Shihab Nye: “In a Village in the West Bank”
4 min
406
Vievee Francis: “The Poems Repeat as Dreams as ...
2 min
407
Robin Coste Lewis: “Cavafy in Compton/Closet An...
4 min
408
Gloria Gervitz, translated by Mark Schafer: Fro...
6 min
409
Varsha Saraiya-Shah: “Anthem for America”
4 min
410
Edward Hirsch: “My First Bookstore”
4 min
411
David St. John: “Venetian Farewells”
4 min
412
T. R. Hummer: “Who Remembers Davenport”
3 min
413
Nicholas Christopher: “1943”
2 min
414
Sally Wen Mao: “Willow, Stop Weeping”
5 min
415
Amie Whittemore: “Future History of Earth’s Birds”
3 min
416
Usha Akella: “Breaking bread with phonemes”
3 min
417
Amy Glynn: “For Leslie”
3 min
418
David Mura: “Vegas Rave Muse”
2 min
419
Lauren K. Watel: “The Last Act”
3 min
420
Michael Collier: “The Globe”
3 min
421
Keetje Kuipers: “10,000 Acres Burned”
3 min
422
Andrew Calis: “The Sea / Is Sacred Still”
3 min
423
Sophia Naz: “To Bear the Right”
3 min
424
Tomás Q. Morín: “Bird”
3 min
425
Jenny Xie: “Le Temps Mort”
2 min