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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Joy Ladin: “Forgetting”
3 min
502
Pramila Venkateswaran: “Body Language”
3 min
503
Julia Kolchinsky: “Naming”
4 min
504
Tarfia Faizullah: “Wait Until It Grows Roots”
1 min
505
Naomi Shihab Nye: “In a Village in the West Bank”
4 min
506
Vievee Francis: “The Poems Repeat as Dreams as ...
2 min
507
Robin Coste Lewis: “Cavafy in Compton/Closet An...
4 min
508
Gloria Gervitz, translated by Mark Schafer: Fro...
6 min
509
Varsha Saraiya-Shah: “Anthem for America”
4 min
510
Edward Hirsch: “My First Bookstore”
4 min
511
David St. John: “Venetian Farewells”
4 min
512
T. R. Hummer: “Who Remembers Davenport”
3 min
513
Nicholas Christopher: “1943”
2 min
514
Sally Wen Mao: “Willow, Stop Weeping”
5 min
515
Amie Whittemore: “Future History of Earth’s Birds”
3 min
516
Usha Akella: “Breaking bread with phonemes”
3 min
517
Amy Glynn: “For Leslie”
3 min
518
David Mura: “Vegas Rave Muse”
2 min
519
Lauren K. Watel: “The Last Act”
3 min
520
Michael Collier: “The Globe”
3 min
521
Keetje Kuipers: “10,000 Acres Burned”
3 min
522
Andrew Calis: “The Sea / Is Sacred Still”
3 min
523
Sophia Naz: “To Bear the Right”
3 min
524
Tomás Q. Morín: “Bird”
3 min
525
Jenny Xie: “Le Temps Mort”
2 min