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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Nellie Wong: "Being pregnant is a dream"
4 min
977
Safiya Sinclair: "Planet Dread"
5 min
978
José Santos Chocano: "The Orchids"
3 min
979
Xavier Valcárcel: "Doppelgänger"
3 min
980
Aria Aber: "Oakland in Rain"
4 min
981
Santee Frazier: "Fugal"
2 min
982
Catherine Chen: "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right ...
3 min
983
Canisia Lubrin: from "The World After Rain"
4 min
984
Aaron Boothby: "Jurupa Hills / Riverside"
3 min
985
Amado Nervo: "To Leonora"
4 min
986
Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles: "Juggler"
3 min
987
Samiya Bashir: "Some days of wine and pastry"
6 min
988
Wendy Xu: "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
4 min
989
Mona Kareem: "Masters and Lovers"
3 min
990
S*an D. Henry Smith: "us girls"
3 min
991
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar: "Women of the 1980s"
3 min
992
Salomón de la Selva: "Tropical Town"
3 min
993
Iryna Shuvalova: "a moving grove"
4 min
994
Carmen Giménez: "Ode to People Who Hate Me"
3 min
995
Felicia Zamora: "Inner"
4 min
996
Joan Naviyuk Kane: "After Anchorage IV"
3 min
997
Ching-In Chen: "Breath for Metal"
4 min
998
Natalie Shapero: "Long Week Talking"
2 min
999
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: "The Palace-Burner"
5 min
1000
Edgar Guest: "Home"
4 min