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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Pamela Mordecai: "savage"
2 min
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Trish Salah: "without a word"
3 min
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Anthony Vahni Capildeo: "Niche"
3 min
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Paolo Javier: "What good news in the world"
2 min
430
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Greenness"
3 min
431
Fitz-Greene Halleck: "Twilight"
6 min
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Seema Reza: "The neurologist gives us permission"
2 min
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Shailja Patel: "Solstice Re-pot"
2 min
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Romeo Oriogun: "Griot of Strange Places"
2 min
435
Évelyne Trouillot, translated by Danielle Legro...
5 min
436
Kettly Mars, translated by Nathan H. Dize: "Bet...
4 min
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Kwame Dawes: "Purple"
2 min
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Algernon Charles Swinburne: "Before Parting"
6 min
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Jacqueline Bishop: "Doilies"
3 min
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Christina Olivares: "Preserving an Ecosystem"
2 min
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Purvi Shah: "You believed only a girl born of d...
3 min
442
Vladimir Lucien: "uses of the erotic"
4 min
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Kaie Kellough: "if who"
3 min
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Christina Rossetti: "On the Wing"
4 min
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Amy Lowell: From “Evelyn Ray”
5 min
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Jacqueline Johnson: "Oracle"
2 min
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JoAnne McFarland: "Jersey"
2 min
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Geoffrey Philp: "Haiku"
1 min
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Anton Nimblett: "Balance"
3 min
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Raina J. León: "making life on a palette"
5 min