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 Thea Matthews. 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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Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "Sonnet"
3 min
602
Leslie Pinckney Hill: "The Black Man’s Bit"
5 min
603
jessica Care moore: "Wild Beauty"
4 min
604
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
3 min
605
Roberto Carlos Garcia: "From 'Tempest'”
3 min
606
Tracy K. Smith: "Everybody’s Autobiography"
2 min
607
Tony Medina: "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
3 min
608
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "The Octoroon"
3 min
609
Julius C. Wright: "Going to the Picnic"
4 min
610
Niki Herd: "From 'The Stuff of Hollywood'”
2 min
611
Rain Prud’homme-Cranford: "Gills"
4 min
612
Kelly Norman Ellis: "Saturday Class: Janie Craw...
2 min
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Lucille Clifton: "[poets in their bassinets]"
2 min
614
Herman Beavers: "On Seventh Avenue at Slaptime "
3 min
615
Maggie Pogue Johnson: "Poet of Our Race"
4 min
616
Sterling A. Brown: "To a Certain Lady, in Her G...
4 min
617
Cherise Pollard: "Nodes of Growth"
3 min
618
Anthony Walton: "Alzheimer’s"
3 min
619
Kwoya Fagin Maples: "Invisible Work"
3 min
620
Eve L. Ewing: "eschatology"
3 min
621
A. Van Jordan: "'Integrated School Books' Arpeg...
3 min
622
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Stars in Alabama"
3 min
623
Langston Hughes: "Sport"
3 min
624
Brad Walrond: "Calculus I, II, III"
3 min
625
Balo Salo: "Counsel to a Bridegroom"
2 min