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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Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
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J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
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Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
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Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
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Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
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Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
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Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
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Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
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George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
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Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
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Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
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Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
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A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
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April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
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Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
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Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
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Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
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Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
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Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
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Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
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Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
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Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
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Langston Hughes: "My People"
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Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
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Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
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Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
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Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
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Angelo Geter: "Praise"
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Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
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Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
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Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
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Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
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Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
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Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
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Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
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James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
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Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
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Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
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Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
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Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
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Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
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Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
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William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
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E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
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Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
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Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
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Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
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Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
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Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
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James Oppenheim: "Self"
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Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
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Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
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Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
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Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
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Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"
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John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"
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Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"
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Laura Kasischke: "Prayer"
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Lidija Dimkovska: "Journey"
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Marilyn Chin: "Sage #3"
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Martha Collins: "Again Later"
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Paisley Rekdal: "有 識: Have Knowledge"
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W. B. Yeats: "VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window"
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Dante Di Stefano: "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daught...
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Rae Armantrout: "On Growth"
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Rosa Alcalá: "You Rode a Loop"
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Srikanth Reddy: Winter Term XV, from Underworld...
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Maureen N. McLane: From A Book of Hours
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Kiki Petrosino: "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1...
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Libbie C. Baer: "When My Soul Findeth Wings"
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Claire Wahmanholm: "O"
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Zoë Hitzig: "I Looked on My Right Hand and Behe...
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Cedar Sigo: "Struggle Itself"
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Luci Tapahonso: "This Morning"
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Kristina Martino: "All I Can Have are Field Rec...
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Carolina Ebeid: "(disambiguation of miriam)"
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Alexander Posey: "My Hermitage"
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J.P. Grasser: "Letter to My Great, Great Grandc...
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Sy Hoahwah: "Church For the Disliked"
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Tacey M. Atsitty: "River Sonnet"
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Santee Frazier: "Hyperacusis"
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Rita Dove: "Testimony: 1968"
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Ray Young Bear: "In Pine, Arizona"
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"We Two" by H. D.
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Helen Hunt Jackson: "Two"
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Peter Balakian: "Waiting for a Number"
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Patricia Smith: "Now He's an Etching"
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Pamela Uschuk: "Green Flame"
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Naomi Shihab Nye: "On Doubt and Bad Reviews"
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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge: "Wonder"
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Carl Sandburg: "Monotone"
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Effie Waller Smith: "The Rainbow"
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Marilyn Kallet: "Beggar"
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Marilyn Hacker: "Ghazal !يا لطيف (Ya Lateef!)"
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Kimberly Blaeser: "The Way We Love Something Sm...
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Katie Condon: "Big with Dawn"
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Elise Paschen: "Aerial, Wild Pine"
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Rainer Maria Rilke: "In April"
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Fenton Johnson: "The Miracle"
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