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 Coleman Edward Dues. 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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Rena Priest: "The Index"
2 min
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James Cihlar: "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"
1 min
403
Margaret Noodin: "Ozaagi’aan One Open to an Other"
2 min
404
Diane di Prima: "Revolutionary Letter #1"
1 min
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Delmira Agustini: "The Vampire"
1 min
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Julian Talamantez Brolaski: "poetry is a tempor...
11 min
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Claire Meuschke: "zero in on"
2 min
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Diana Hamilton: "Trance Essay for Remembering I...
5 min
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Lynn Xu: "Untitled Fragment"
1 min
410
Susan Briante: Excerpt from "Defacing the Monum...
3 min
411
Kevin Killian: "Free"
1 min
412
Kay Gabriel: "Like, Comma, Like"
1 min
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Daniel Borzutzky: "Written After a Massacre in ...
3 min
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Margaret Ross: "Evolution"
4 min
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Öykü Tekten: "mountain language"
1 min
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Aldrin Valdez: "ars poetica"
2 min
417
Trace Howard DePass: "[th(e)reat] → siege engine"
2 min
418
Kerry Carnahan: "[My ancestors are empty words]"
2 min
419
Juliana Spahr: excerpts from "Will There Be Sin...
10 min
420
Solmaz Sharif: "He, Too"
0 min
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Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta: "[untitled]"
4 min
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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "Time-lapse Video Of ...
1 min
423
C. Dale Young: "Melancholia"
3 min
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heidi andrea restrepo rhodes: "Flying Down the ...
4 min
425
José Martí: "Love in the City"
4 min
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Louise Glück: "The Red Poppy"
1 min
427
Javier Zamora: "Nó, Actually, Soy Salvadoreño"
4 min
428
Oliver Baez Bendorf: "Dysphoria"
2 min
429
Brenda Cárdenas: "Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas"
2 min
430
Peggy Robles–Alvarado: "When I Became La Promesa"
4 min
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Rafael Campo: "California"
3 min
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: "Love Opened a Morta...
1 min
433
Enrique Villasis & Bernard Capinpin: "Birds in ...
4 min
434
Anthony Cody: "brd"
3 min
435
Natalie Scenters-Zapico: "Pledge Allegiance"
4 min
436
Carmen Gimenéz Smith: "Like an Auto-Tune of Aut...
1 min
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Gary Soto: "In Praise of Dreams"
2 min
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Diannely Antigua: "Anniversary"
1 min
439
Gabriela Mistral: "The Teller of Tales"
3 min
440
Yau Ching & Chenxin Jiang: "Trial Run"
1 min
441
Darrel Alejandro Holnes: "Black Parade"
3 min
442
Rosebud Ben-Oni: "So They Say— They Finally Na...
4 min
443
Martín Espada: "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón...
5 min
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Richard Blanco: "Maine Yet Miami"
4 min
445
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo: "Battlegrounds"
3 min
446
William Carlos Williams: "A Portrait in Greys"
1 min
447
Julio Pazos Barrera & Bryan Mendoza: "Pegasus A...
2 min
448
Tomás Q. Morín: "A Pile of Fish"
3 min
449
Nicole Cecilia Delgado & Urayoán Noel: "From Ba...
3 min
450
Ada Limón: "Give Me This"
1 min
451
Jasminne Mendez: "Along the Border"
1 min
452
Juan Felipe Herrera: "breathe we"
1 min
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Rubén Darío: "To the Country"
3 min
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Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng: "Learning Late Letters"
6 min
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Ashaki M. Jackson: "A Proclamation"
1 min
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Sharan Strange: "Slippage, a Provocation"
5 min
457
Jasmine Reid: "Certificate of Live Birth"
2 min
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Rio Cortez: "Driving at Night"
0 min
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Bettina Judd: "on empathy"
3 min
460
Josephine D. Heard: "Sunshine After Cloud"
1 min
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Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Again it is September"
0 min
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Nandi Comer: "The Check In"
2 min
463
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Middle of the Burning"
5 min
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Daria-Ann Martineau: "Carnivorous, with a varie...
2 min
465
Charleen McClure: "Caretaker"
2 min
466
Starr Davis: "Today, God"
2 min
467
Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: "The Plains of Peace"
2 min
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Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.: "A Prayer"
0 min
469
Joy Priest: "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Ov...
4 min
470
Marwa Helal: "WHO REAL؟"
14 min
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Jeremy Michael Clark: "One Fire, Quenched with ...
4 min
472
Desiree C. Bailey: "Woman in Dub"
3 min
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francine j. Harris: "Did anyone ever ask any on...
2 min
474
Leslie Pinckney Hill: "Vacation End"
1 min
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William Stanley Braithwaite: "It’s a Long Way"
0 min
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Nabila Lovelace: "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
1 min
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Natasha Oladokun: "Black Credit"
3 min
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makalani bandele: "sample collected from a supe...
2 min
479
Taylor Johnson: "Menace to"
1 min
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Ashley M. Jones: "ALL Y’ALL REALLY FROM ALABAMA"
3 min
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Myra Viola Wilds: "Dewdrops"
0 min
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Carrie Williams Clifford: "Together"
1 min
483
Lauren K. Alleyne: "For my Brother(s)"
4 min
484
Kate Rushin : "Venus & Serena Play Doubles On C...
3 min
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Jacqueline Woodson: "Absolute"
2 min
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Antoinette Brim-Bell: "Duplex: Black Mamas Pray...
1 min
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Kortney Morrow: "American Girl Dolls Attend Man...
3 min
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Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "The Black Queen"
0 min
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
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Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
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Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
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Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
493
Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
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Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
495
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
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Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
497
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
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L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
499
Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
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Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min