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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Rachel McKibbens: “Deluxe Mourning Package”
4 min
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Isa Borgeson: “[last summer I folded my dresses...
3 min
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Travis Tate: “Summer City”
2 min
104
Edward Powys Mathers: “Six Love Songs”
5 min
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Mona Van Duyn: “The Talker”
2 min
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Ariana Brown: “The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fa...
4 min
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Shira Erlichman: “I Was Born Again the First Ti...
5 min
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Kamelya Omayma Youssef: “My earth which is mine...
3 min
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Moncho Alvarado: “An Erasure of Senate Bill 111”
3 min
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Jimin Seo: “In Memoriam [±That after all this...
4 min
111
Mina Loy: “Gertrude Stein”
2 min
112
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “St. Telemachus”
7 min
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Eva Candelaria Sosa: “Afterwards”
2 min
114
Lan Lesmeister: “Lube, Ars Poetica”
3 min
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Janani Balasubramanian: “Quiet”
3 min
116
Andrea Lawlor: “Position Paper #53: National Ar...
2 min
117
Billy-Ray Belcourt: “Bildungssonnet”
2 min
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Erasmus Darwin: From “The Temple of Nature,” Ca...
6 min
119
Tao Yuanming, translated by Arthur Waley: “[A l...
2 min
120
Danez Smith: “Do You Know What Today Is?”
3 min
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William Ward Butler: “Fidelity”
3 min
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Alexis N. Garcia: “Alexa for Seniors in Easy St...
3 min
123
Muriel Leung: “At the end of the world, you tel...
3 min
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Kyle Carrero Lopez: “Statement of Purpose”
3 min
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Allen Tate: “Mr. Pope”
3 min