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 Coleman Edward Dues. 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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Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
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Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
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Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
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Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
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Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
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Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
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Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
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Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
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Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
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E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
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Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
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Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
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Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
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Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
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Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min
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Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyho...
4 min
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Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
2 min
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Nick Demske: "I let the flies bite me when I me...
3 min
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Effie Lee Newsome: "Sunset"
1 min
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Tu Fu: "The River Village"
2 min
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Cammy Thomas: "French Toast"
2 min
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Timmy Straw: "Copernicus"
3 min
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Kimberly Alidio: "a feeling has passed before a...
3 min
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Dan Lau: "XX Judgement"
2 min
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Guest Editor Interview: August Guest Editor Kaz...
29 min
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Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
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Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
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Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
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Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
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Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
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Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
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Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
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Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
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George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
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Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
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Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
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Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
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Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
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Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
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George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
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Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
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Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
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Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
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Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
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Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
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Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
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Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
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Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
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S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
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Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
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Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
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Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
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Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
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Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
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Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min
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Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fi...
3 min
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Guest Editor Interview: July Guest Editor R. Er...
26 min
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George Abraham: "Searching for a Palestinian Ne...
6 min
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dee(dee) c. ardan: "freedom terrors"
8 min
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Precious Okoyomon: "The animal that is most vul...
2 min
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Tian-Ai: "Aspiration"
3 min
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: "With the Lark"
2 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "Little Grey Dreams"
2 min
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Rachel B. Glaser: "As dogs"
2 min
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Noah Baldino: "Felt Flowers"
5 min
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Mónica de la Torre: "Remote Disjunctions"
3 min
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Miller Oberman: "Commas"
3 min
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McKenzie Toma: "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"
3 min
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Elsa Gidlow: "I, Lover"
2 min
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Langston Hughes: "Our Land"
2 min
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Margarita Cruz: "Mourning"
2 min
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LA Warman: "Who Hurt You"
4 min
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Kemi Alabi: "Voice Clear As"
2 min
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Kamelya Omayma Youssef: "In the ن of it all"
5 min
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Hao Guang Tse: "to give the thing a name that ...
1 min
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Sarojini Naidu: "June Sunset"
3 min
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Alexander Posey: "Seashells"
1 min
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Jon-Michael Frank: "[there must be one thing yo...
2 min
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Hazem Fahmy: "Interrogation of an Alternate Tim...
3 min
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Hanae Jonas: "Pastoral"
3 min
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Gabrielle Octavia Rucker: "I Don’t Say Goodbye,...
3 min
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Deborah Paredez: "Perseverance"
3 min
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Louise Bogan: "Knowledge"
1 min
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Eloise Bibb Thompson: "Ode to the Sun"
2 min
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danilo machado: "(telling)"
4 min
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Cyrée Jarelle Johnson: "Last Best Niche"
3 min
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Camille Rankine: "Ways to Disappear"
2 min
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Ayesha Raees: "All Along, I Laid, Halved"
4 min
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Guest Editor Interview: June Guest Editor Anaïs...
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Chen Chen: "i love you to the moon &"
2 min
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Li Po: "Looking at the Moon After Rain"
2 min
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Toru Dutt: "Sonnet—Baugmaree"
2 min
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Rachel Mennies: "September 23, 2016"
4 min
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Luther Hughes: "When Struck by Night"
3 min
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Donika Kelly: "In the Beginning"
2 min
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Terrance Hayes: "Muscular Fantasy"
4 min
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Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"
3 min
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Wang Wei: "The Blue-Green Stream"
2 min
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Queen Liliʻuokalani: "Kumulipo"
2 min