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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Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1127
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
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Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1129
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1130
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1131
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1132
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1133
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1134
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1135
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1136
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1137
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1138
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1139
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1140
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1141
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1142
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1143
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1144
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1145
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1146
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1147
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1148
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1149
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
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Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min