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
502
Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"
3 min
503
Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"
4 min
504
Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"
2 min
505
MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "
3 min
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Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"
2 min
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William Moore: "Expectancy"
3 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"
3 min
509
Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"
3 min
510
Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"
3 min
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Youna Kwak: "After [I never feel so alive as wh...
2 min
512
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
515
Frank Barbour Coffin: "The Negro’s 'America'”
3 min
516
Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
3 min
517
Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Edi...
23 min
518
Catherine Bowman: "Pears"
3 min
519
James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"
1 min
520
Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"
2 min
521
Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the g...
8 min
522
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"
4 min
523
Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"
2 min
524
Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"
3 min
525
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello: "The Houseguest"
3 min