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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Pamela Mordecai: "savage"
2 min
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Trish Salah: "without a word"
3 min
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Anthony Vahni Capildeo: "Niche"
3 min
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Paolo Javier: "What good news in the world"
2 min
555
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Greenness"
3 min
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Fitz-Greene Halleck: "Twilight"
6 min
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Seema Reza: "The neurologist gives us permission"
2 min
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Shailja Patel: "Solstice Re-pot"
2 min
559
Romeo Oriogun: "Griot of Strange Places"
2 min
560
Évelyne Trouillot, translated by Danielle Legro...
5 min
561
Kettly Mars, translated by Nathan H. Dize: "Bet...
4 min
562
Kwame Dawes: "Purple"
2 min
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Algernon Charles Swinburne: "Before Parting"
6 min
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Jacqueline Bishop: "Doilies"
3 min
565
Christina Olivares: "Preserving an Ecosystem"
2 min
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Purvi Shah: "You believed only a girl born of d...
3 min
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Vladimir Lucien: "uses of the erotic"
4 min
568
Kaie Kellough: "if who"
3 min
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Christina Rossetti: "On the Wing"
4 min
570
Amy Lowell: From “Evelyn Ray”
5 min
571
Jacqueline Johnson: "Oracle"
2 min
572
JoAnne McFarland: "Jersey"
2 min
573
Geoffrey Philp: "Haiku"
1 min
574
Anton Nimblett: "Balance"
3 min
575
Raina J. León: "making life on a palette"
5 min