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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Jos Charles: “A Song” [I was want]
3 min
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Rachel McKibbens: “Deluxe Mourning Package”
4 min
53
Isa Borgeson: “[last summer I folded my dresses...
3 min
54
Travis Tate: “Summer City”
2 min
55
Edward Powys Mathers: “Six Love Songs”
5 min
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Mona Van Duyn: “The Talker”
2 min
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Ariana Brown: “The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fa...
4 min
58
Shira Erlichman: “I Was Born Again the First Ti...
5 min
59
Kamelya Omayma Youssef: “My earth which is mine...
3 min
60
Moncho Alvarado: “An Erasure of Senate Bill 111”
3 min
61
Jimin Seo: “In Memoriam [±That after all this...
4 min
62
Mina Loy: “Gertrude Stein”
2 min
63
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “St. Telemachus”
7 min
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Eva Candelaria Sosa: “Afterwards”
2 min
65
Lan Lesmeister: “Lube, Ars Poetica”
3 min
66
Janani Balasubramanian: “Quiet”
3 min
67
Andrea Lawlor: “Position Paper #53: National Ar...
2 min
68
Billy-Ray Belcourt: “Bildungssonnet”
2 min
69
Erasmus Darwin: From “The Temple of Nature,” Ca...
6 min
70
Tao Yuanming, translated by Arthur Waley: “[A l...
2 min
71
Danez Smith: “Do You Know What Today Is?”
3 min
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William Ward Butler: “Fidelity”
3 min
73
Alexis N. Garcia: “Alexa for Seniors in Easy St...
3 min
74
Muriel Leung: “At the end of the world, you tel...
3 min
75
Kyle Carrero Lopez: “Statement of Purpose”
3 min