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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Mark Jarman: “The Mermaid”
2 min
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Joy Ladin: “Forgetting”
3 min
53
Pramila Venkateswaran: “Body Language”
3 min
54
Julia Kolchinsky: “Naming”
4 min
55
Tarfia Faizullah: “Wait Until It Grows Roots”
1 min
56
Naomi Shihab Nye: “In a Village in the West Bank”
4 min
57
Vievee Francis: “The Poems Repeat as Dreams as ...
2 min
58
Robin Coste Lewis: “Cavafy in Compton/Closet An...
4 min
59
Gloria Gervitz, translated by Mark Schafer: Fro...
6 min
60
Varsha Saraiya-Shah: “Anthem for America”
4 min
61
Edward Hirsch: “My First Bookstore”
4 min
62
David St. John: “Venetian Farewells”
4 min
63
T. R. Hummer: “Who Remembers Davenport”
3 min
64
Nicholas Christopher: “1943”
2 min
65
Sally Wen Mao: “Willow, Stop Weeping”
5 min
66
Amie Whittemore: “Future History of Earth’s Birds”
3 min
67
Usha Akella: “Breaking bread with phonemes”
3 min
68
Amy Glynn: “For Leslie”
3 min
69
David Mura: “Vegas Rave Muse”
2 min
70
Lauren K. Watel: “The Last Act”
3 min
71
Michael Collier: “The Globe”
3 min
72
Keetje Kuipers: “10,000 Acres Burned”
3 min
73
Andrew Calis: “The Sea / Is Sacred Still”
3 min
74
Sophia Naz: “To Bear the Right”
3 min
75
Tomás Q. Morín: “Bird”
3 min