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 Nadra Mabrouk.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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Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"
2 min
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Trace Howard DePass: "[th(e)reat] → siege engine"
2 min
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Kerry Carnahan: "[My ancestors are empty words]"
2 min
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Juliana Spahr: excerpts from "Will There Be Sin...
10 min
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Solmaz Sharif: "He, Too"
0 min
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Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta: "[untitled]"
4 min
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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "Time-lapse Video Of ...
1 min
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C. Dale Young: "Melancholia"
3 min
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heidi andrea restrepo rhodes: "Flying Down the ...
4 min
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José Martí: "Love in the City"
4 min
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Louise Glück: "The Red Poppy"
1 min
212
Javier Zamora: "Nó, Actually, Soy Salvadoreño"
4 min
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Oliver Baez Bendorf: "Dysphoria"
2 min
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Brenda Cárdenas: "Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas"
2 min
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Peggy Robles–Alvarado: "When I Became La Promesa"
4 min
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Rafael Campo: "California"
3 min
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: "Love Opened a Morta...
1 min
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Enrique Villasis & Bernard Capinpin: "Birds in ...
4 min
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Anthony Cody: "brd"
3 min
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Natalie Scenters-Zapico: "Pledge Allegiance"
4 min
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Carmen Gimenéz Smith: "Like an Auto-Tune of Aut...
1 min
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Gary Soto: "In Praise of Dreams"
2 min
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Diannely Antigua: "Anniversary"
1 min
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Gabriela Mistral: "The Teller of Tales"
3 min
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Yau Ching & Chenxin Jiang: "Trial Run"
1 min
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Darrel Alejandro Holnes: "Black Parade"
3 min
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Rosebud Ben-Oni: "So They Say— They Finally Na...
4 min
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Martín Espada: "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón...
5 min
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Richard Blanco: "Maine Yet Miami"
4 min
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Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo: "Battlegrounds"
3 min
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William Carlos Williams: "A Portrait in Greys"
1 min
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Julio Pazos Barrera & Bryan Mendoza: "Pegasus A...
2 min
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Tomás Q. Morín: "A Pile of Fish"
3 min
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Nicole Cecilia Delgado & Urayoán Noel: "From Ba...
3 min
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Ada Limón: "Give Me This"
1 min
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Jasminne Mendez: "Along the Border"
1 min
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Juan Felipe Herrera: "breathe we"
1 min
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Rubén Darío: "To the Country"
3 min
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Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng: "Learning Late Letters"
6 min
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Ashaki M. Jackson: "A Proclamation"
1 min
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Sharan Strange: "Slippage, a Provocation"
5 min
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Jasmine Reid: "Certificate of Live Birth"
2 min
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Rio Cortez: "Driving at Night"
0 min
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Bettina Judd: "on empathy"
3 min
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Josephine D. Heard: "Sunshine After Cloud"
1 min
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Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Again it is September"
0 min
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Nandi Comer: "The Check In"
2 min
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Canisia Lubrin: "In the Middle of the Burning"
5 min
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Daria-Ann Martineau: "Carnivorous, with a varie...
2 min
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Charleen McClure: "Caretaker"
2 min
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Starr Davis: "Today, God"
2 min
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Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: "The Plains of Peace"
2 min
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Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "A Prayer"
0 min
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Joy Priest: "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Ov...
4 min
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Marwa Helal: "WHO REAL؟"
14 min
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Jeremy Michael Clark: "One Fire, Quenched with ...
4 min
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Desiree C. Bailey: "Woman in Dub"
3 min
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francine j. Harris: "Did anyone ever ask any on...
2 min
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Leslie Pinckney Hill: "Vacation End"
1 min
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William Stanley Braithwaite: "It’s a Long Way"
0 min
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Nabila Lovelace: "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
1 min
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Natasha Oladokun: "Black Credit"
3 min
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makalani bandele: "sample collected from a supe...
2 min
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Taylor Johnson: "Menace to"
1 min
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Ashley M. Jones: "ALL Y’ALL REALLY FROM ALABAMA"
3 min
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Myra Viola Wilds: "Dewdrops"
0 min
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Carrie Williams Clifford: "Together"
1 min
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Lauren K. Alleyne: "For my Brother(s)"
4 min
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Kate Rushin : "Venus & Serena Play Doubles On C...
3 min
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Jacqueline Woodson: "Absolute"
2 min
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Antoinette Brim-Bell: "Duplex: Black Mamas Pray...
1 min
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Kortney Morrow: "American Girl Dolls Attend Man...
3 min
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Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "The Black Queen"
0 min
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
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Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
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Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
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Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
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Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
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Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
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Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
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Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
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Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
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L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
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Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
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Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
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Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
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Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
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Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
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Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
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Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
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Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
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Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
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James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
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Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
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Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
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Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
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Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min