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