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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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Love’s Language"
3 min
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Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"
3 min
453
Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"
4 min
454
Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"
2 min
455
MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "
3 min
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Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"
2 min
457
William Moore: "Expectancy"
3 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"
3 min
459
Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"
3 min
460
Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"
3 min
461
Youna Kwak: "After [I never feel so alive as wh...
2 min
462
Aldrin Regina Valdez: "January”
2 min
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m.s. RedCherries: "playing america in spring
1 min
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Blanche Taylor Dickinson: "Things Said When He ...
3 min
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Frank Barbour Coffin: "The Negro’s 'America'”
3 min
466
Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
3 min
467
Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Edi...
23 min
468
Catherine Bowman: "Pears"
3 min
469
James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"
1 min
470
Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"
2 min
471
Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the g...
8 min
472
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"
4 min
473
Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"
2 min
474
Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"
3 min
475
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello: "The Houseguest"
3 min