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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Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "Sonnet"
3 min
852
Leslie Pinckney Hill: "The Black Man’s Bit"
5 min
853
jessica Care moore: "Wild Beauty"
4 min
854
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
3 min
855
Roberto Carlos Garcia: "From 'Tempest'”
3 min
856
Tracy K. Smith: "Everybody’s Autobiography"
2 min
857
Tony Medina: "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
3 min
858
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "The Octoroon"
3 min
859
Julius C. Wright: "Going to the Picnic"
4 min
860
Niki Herd: "From 'The Stuff of Hollywood'”
2 min
861
Rain Prud’homme-Cranford: "Gills"
4 min
862
Kelly Norman Ellis: "Saturday Class: Janie Craw...
2 min
863
Lucille Clifton: "[poets in their bassinets]"
2 min
864
Herman Beavers: "On Seventh Avenue at Slaptime "
3 min
865
Maggie Pogue Johnson: "Poet of Our Race"
4 min
866
Sterling A. Brown: "To a Certain Lady, in Her G...
4 min
867
Cherise Pollard: "Nodes of Growth"
3 min
868
Anthony Walton: "Alzheimer’s"
3 min
869
Kwoya Fagin Maples: "Invisible Work"
3 min
870
Eve L. Ewing: "eschatology"
3 min
871
A. Van Jordan: "'Integrated School Books' Arpeg...
3 min
872
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Stars in Alabama"
3 min
873
Langston Hughes: "Sport"
3 min
874
Brad Walrond: "Calculus I, II, III"
3 min
875
Balo Salo: "Counsel to a Bridegroom"
2 min