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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Else Lasker-Schüler: “Sphinx”
2 min
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Jeffrey Pethybridge: “Note on Method”
5 min
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Adrian Matejka: “16 Bars Poetica”
2 min
54
Kiki Petrosino: From “De Jure Sanguinis”
2 min
55
Fiona Templeton: “Why Say That”
3 min
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Elisa Gabbert: “The Bridge”
2 min
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Rainer Maria Rilke: “Put Out My Eyes”
2 min
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Charles Baudelaire: “Obsession”
3 min
59
CM Burroughs: “One Way To Resurrect An Ancestor”
2 min
60
Christian Campbell: “My Grandmother’s Love Lett...
3 min
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Kyla Marshell: “Somewhere Swimming”
2 min
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Tommye Blount: “Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty”
4 min
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Jzl Jmz: “Drenched in Reflection”
2 min
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Adrienne Rich: “This Evening Let’s”
4 min
65
Pierre Dupont: “A Serenade”
2 min
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Abe Louise Young: “Who”
2 min
67
Douglas Kearney: “There’s no ‘sass’ in “dissoci...
2 min
68
Chet’la Sebree: “An End”
3 min
69
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: “Black Pastoral”
3 min
70
Antoinette Brim-Bell: “Insomniac Tankas”
2 min
71
Djuna Barnes: “I’d Have You Think of Me”
3 min
72
Victor Hugo: “Truth”
7 min
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Keith S. Wilson: “there aren’t enough idioms ab...
2 min
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Andrea Rexilius: “The Way the Language Was”
2 min
75
Bettina Judd: “A Poem about Home”
3 min