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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Corrie Lynn White: "After Striving"
2 min
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Destiny Hemphill: "our own names"
3 min
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Diana Marie Delgado: "People to Run From"
3 min
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Alfred Kreymborg: "Dance"
2 min
980
Elizabeth Bishop: "Behind Stowe"
3 min
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Erin Rose Coffin: "Remembering Our First Parties"
2 min
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Fred L. Joiner: "Sikasso Snow"
2 min
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Hafizah Augustus Geter: "Praise Song"
3 min
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Ina Cariño: "Everything is Exactly the Same as ...
3 min
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Nabila Lovelace: "Ars Poetica"
2 min
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Countee Cullen: "Confession"
2 min
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Charlotte Mew: "The Forest Road"
8 min
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A. H. Jerriod Avant: "Who Can Govern Themselves...
3 min
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K. D. Harryman: "Whipping"
2 min
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Karisma Price: "Castnet Seafood"
4 min
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Matthew Wimberley: "Materials for a Gravestone ...
4 min
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Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
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John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
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Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
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Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
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Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
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Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
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Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
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Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
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Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min