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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Terrance Hayes: "Vintage Vanity"
6 min
502
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Love’s Language"
3 min
503
Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"
3 min
504
Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"
4 min
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Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"
2 min
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MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "
3 min
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Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"
2 min
508
William Moore: "Expectancy"
3 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"
3 min
510
Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"
3 min
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Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"
3 min
512
Youna Kwak: "After [I never feel so alive as wh...
2 min
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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
517
Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Edi...
23 min
518
Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
3 min
519
Catherine Bowman: "Pears"
3 min
520
James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"
1 min
521
Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"
2 min
522
Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the g...
8 min
523
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"
4 min
524
Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"
2 min
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Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"
3 min