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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Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "Sonnet"
3 min
402
Leslie Pinckney Hill: "The Black Man’s Bit"
5 min
403
jessica Care moore: "Wild Beauty"
4 min
404
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
3 min
405
Roberto Carlos Garcia: "From 'Tempest'”
3 min
406
Tracy K. Smith: "Everybody’s Autobiography"
2 min
407
Tony Medina: "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
3 min
408
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "The Octoroon"
3 min
409
Julius C. Wright: "Going to the Picnic"
4 min
410
Niki Herd: "From 'The Stuff of Hollywood'”
2 min
411
Rain Prud’homme-Cranford: "Gills"
4 min
412
Kelly Norman Ellis: "Saturday Class: Janie Craw...
2 min
413
Lucille Clifton: "[poets in their bassinets]"
2 min
414
Herman Beavers: "On Seventh Avenue at Slaptime "
3 min
415
Maggie Pogue Johnson: "Poet of Our Race"
4 min
416
Sterling A. Brown: "To a Certain Lady, in Her G...
4 min
417
Cherise Pollard: "Nodes of Growth"
3 min
418
Anthony Walton: "Alzheimer’s"
3 min
419
Kwoya Fagin Maples: "Invisible Work"
3 min
420
Eve L. Ewing: "eschatology"
3 min
421
A. Van Jordan: "'Integrated School Books' Arpeg...
3 min
422
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Stars in Alabama"
3 min
423
Langston Hughes: "Sport"
3 min
424
Brad Walrond: "Calculus I, II, III"
3 min
425
Balo Salo: "Counsel to a Bridegroom"
2 min