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 Coleman Edward Dues. 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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Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
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Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
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June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
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Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
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Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
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Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
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Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
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Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
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Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
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Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
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Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
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Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
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Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
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Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
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Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
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Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
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Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
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Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
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Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
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Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
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Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
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Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
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Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
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Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
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Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
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Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
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Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
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H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
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Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
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Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
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Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
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José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
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Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
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Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
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Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min
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Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"
2 min
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Safia Elhillo: "Ode to Sudanese-Americans"
3 min
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beyza ozer: "on holding rose water"
1 min
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Ladan Osman: "Take Wing Tempo"
2 min
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Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The New Decade"
1 min
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George Marion McClellan: "A January Dandelion"
1 min
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Léonie Adams: "Never Enough of Living"
1 min
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Jamila Woods: "Day 29 (2020)"
1 min
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Jacqueline Waters: "Ready for My Statement?"
1 min
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Eran Eads: "TM"
1 min
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Brandon Brown: "Dog Park"
2 min
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Prageeta Sharma: "The Imperishable and Perishab...
2 min
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Charles Bertram Johnson: "A Song of Hope"
1 min
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Emily Dickinson: "That is solemn we have ended,...
0 min
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Nate Klug: "Jasmine"
2 min
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Merrill Gilfillan: "Just After Dawn"
1 min
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Noah Ross: "echium swallows"
3 min
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Ely Shipley: "Hiatus"
2 min
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Genya Turovskaya: "Wisterical"
1 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "A Winter Twilight"
0 min
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Jones Very: "The Winter Bird"
1 min
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Michael Wasson: "So Call It Grace"
2 min
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Jenny Johnson: "Pedal"
3 min
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G. E. Patterson: "The Keeping Room"
4 min
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Eric Ekstrand: "Family Solo"
2 min
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Aditi Machado: "Then"
1 min
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Fenton Johnson: "Revery"
1 min
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Lola Ridge: "Altitude"
0 min
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Robyn Schiff: "Oak Gall Wasp"
4 min
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Anne Carson: "O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love"
0 min
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Zach Savich: "Rust Honey"
1 min
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Donna Stonecipher: "The Ruins of Nostalgia 59"
3 min
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Yona Harvey: "Hickory Street, New Orleans"
2 min
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Otto Leland Bohanan: "Villanelle"
1 min
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Mina Loy: "Love Songs (section III)"
0 min
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Richard Siken: "Real Estate"
2 min
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Eileen Myles: "Howl"
0 min
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Raquel Gutiérrez: "Would It Kill Me To Be A Nic...
1 min
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Mark McMorris: "The Thought of the World"
3 min
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b: william bearhart: "No More Fire Here: A Ses...
3 min
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John Rollin Ridge: "Random Thoughts of Her"
1 min
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Ruth Muskrat Bronson: from “Sonnets from the Ch...
1 min
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Ishmael Angaluuk Hope: "Dance Practice"
1 min
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Gordon Henry: "It was Snowing on the Monuments"
3 min
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Janet McAdams: "Lie"
2 min
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Tiffany Midge: "Distracted from COVID-19, Atten...
2 min
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Mark Turcotte: "Dear New Blood"
3 min
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Paul Celan: "So Many Constellations"
1 min
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Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: "A Picture"
2 min
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Aricka Foreman: "Polycystic Study of Intimacy"
3 min
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William Reichard: "In the Evening"
2 min
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Eric Gansworth: "The Word for Gossip"
3 min
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Tanaya Winder: "Becoming a Ghost"
2 min
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Michael Torres: "Pockets"
3 min
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Bertrand N.O. Walker: "A Mojave Lullaby"
1 min
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Margaret Noodin: "To the Pine Tree" by Jane Joh...
2 min
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Aimee Suzara: "Amphibious"
3 min
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Melanie Figg: "A Rogue Dream"
2 min
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LeAnne Howe: "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"
3 min
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Khaty Xiong: "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
2 min
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Halee Kirkwood: "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
2 min
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Alexander Posey: "On the Hills of Dawn"
0 min
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Emily Pauline Johnson: "Marshlands"
1 min
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Roy G. Guzmán: excerpt from "The Age of Aquarius"
4 min
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Michael Kleber-Diggs: "America Is Loving Me to ...
3 min