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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Kiki Petrosino: From “De Jure Sanguinis”
2 min
102
Fiona Templeton: “Why Say That”
3 min
103
Elisa Gabbert: “The Bridge”
2 min
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Rainer Maria Rilke: “Put Out My Eyes”
2 min
105
Charles Baudelaire: “Obsession”
3 min
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CM Burroughs: “One Way To Resurrect An Ancestor”
2 min
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Christian Campbell: “My Grandmother’s Love Lett...
3 min
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Kyla Marshell: “Somewhere Swimming”
2 min
109
Tommye Blount: “Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty”
4 min
110
Jzl Jmz: “Drenched in Reflection”
2 min
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Adrienne Rich: “This Evening Let’s”
4 min
112
Pierre Dupont: “A Serenade”
2 min
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Abe Louise Young: “Who”
2 min
114
Douglas Kearney: “There’s no ‘sass’ in “dissoci...
2 min
115
Chet’la Sebree: “An End”
3 min
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Lillian-Yvonne Bertram: “Black Pastoral”
3 min
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Antoinette Brim-Bell: “Insomniac Tankas”
2 min
118
Djuna Barnes: “I’d Have You Think of Me”
3 min
119
Victor Hugo: “Truth”
7 min
120
Keith S. Wilson: “there aren’t enough idioms ab...
2 min
121
Andrea Rexilius: “The Way the Language Was”
2 min
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Bettina Judd: “A Poem about Home”
3 min
123
DaMaris B. Hill: “Come. Pray. Know”
3 min
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Guest Editor Interview: July 2025 Guest Editor ...
16 min
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Anahita Monfared: “The Manic Depressive’s Alpha...
6 min