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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Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1102
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1103
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1104
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min
1105
Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in S...
1 min
1106
Waring Cuney: "No Images"
1 min
1107
Gail Mazur: "The Flea"
3 min
1108
Brandon D. Johnson: "Standing by a Shelf"
3 min
1109
Carl Phillips: "Why So This Quiet"
2 min
1110
Laure-Anne Bosselaar: "Late Afternoon Stroll on...
3 min
1111
E. Ethelbert Miller: "Crossing the Line"
2 min
1112
Helene Johnson: "Trees at Night"
2 min
1113
Arna Bontemps: "Length of Moon"
1 min
1114
Kimiko Hahn: "[The whale already]"
2 min
1115
Robert Pinsky: "Revisionary"
3 min
1116
Martín Espada: "Wake Up, Mario"
9 min
1117
Marilyn Nelson: "Last Mattress"
3 min
1118
Garrett Hongo: "On 'Phantasmagorique #15,' a Pa...
3 min
1119
Clarissa Scott Delany: "Joy"
1 min
1120
Langston Hughes: "As I Grew Older"
2 min
1121
Linda Susan Jackson: "Nailing Things Down"
3 min
1122
Joel Dias-Porter: "Three Wrong Notes"
3 min
1123
Sharon Olds: "Not Once"
3 min
1124
Yusef Komunyakaa: from “Autobiography of My Alt...
5 min
1125
Guest Editor Interview: February 2022 Guest Edi...
10 min