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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Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
1077
Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
1078
Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
1079
Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
1080
Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
1081
Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
1082
Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
1083
Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
1084
Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
1085
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
1086
Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
1087
Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
1088
Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
1089
Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
1090
George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
1091
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min
1092
Tommy Archuleta: "Ancestry"
3 min
1093
Maxine Scates: "Look"
3 min
1094
Jose Hernandez Diaz: "Hey,"
2 min
1095
Guest Editor Interview: March 2023 Guest Editor...
30 min
1096
John S. Blake: "No Room to Form"
3 min
1097
Charif Shanahan: "Indeterminacy"
2 min
1098
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Slow through the Dark"
2 min
1099
Helene Johnson: "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"
3 min
1100
Adrian Matejka: "October Sonnet"
2 min