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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Benjamin Krusling: "what can I know what should...
3 min
502
W. J. Lofton: "The Lord is American"
3 min
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Terrance Hayes: "Vintage Vanity"
6 min
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Love’s Language"
3 min
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Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"
3 min
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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
510
William Moore: "Expectancy"
3 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"
3 min
512
Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"
3 min
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Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"
3 min
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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
518
Frank Barbour Coffin: "The Negro’s 'America'”
3 min
519
Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Edi...
23 min
520
Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
3 min
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Catherine Bowman: "Pears"
3 min
522
James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"
1 min
523
Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"
2 min
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Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the g...
8 min
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Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"
4 min