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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Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Pole| |Sport"
4 min
1227
Arisa White: "Curious and Counting"
2 min
1228
Nikky Finney: "The Inflammation"
8 min
1229
Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was ...
4 min
1230
Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"
3 min
1231
Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"
3 min
1232
Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"
3 min
1233
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
1234
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
1235
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
1236
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
1237
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
1238
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
1239
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
1240
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
1241
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
1242
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
1243
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min
1244
Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cic...
3 min
1245
Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"
5 min
1246
Anne Reeve Aldrich: "Rose Song"
3 min
1247
Destiny O. Birdsong: "I Go Back to Myself, Apri...
4 min
1248
Kayleb Rae Candrilli: "Daytona 500"
3 min
1249
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The Understudy"
3 min
1250
Diamond Forde: "Rememory"
4 min