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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Tommye Blount: "An Act of Love"
3 min
1227
francine j. harris: "Wetland"
3 min
1228
Taylor Byas: "Love Poem Attempt 3/?"
3 min
1229
Sterling A. Brown: "Challenge"
2 min
1230
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "The Venus of Milo"
3 min
1231
Joy Priest: "When I See the Stars in the Night ...
3 min
1232
Willie Lee Kinard III: "Aubade: Nocturne"
5 min
1233
Ariana Benson: "Love Poem in the Black Field"
3 min
1234
Arlene Keizer: "Canopy"
2 min
1235
Nkosi Nkululeko: "Continental Breakfast"
3 min
1236
Claude McKay: "When Dawn Comes to the City"
5 min
1237
Anne Spencer: "Substitution"
3 min
1238
Imani Davis: "Kink"
3 min
1239
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "Brown Estate, 2018 T...
3 min
1240
Evie Shockley: "black love"
2 min
1241
Guest Editor Interview: February 2023 Guest Edi...
13 min
1242
Dorothea Lasky: "This Beautiful Planet"
3 min
1243
Ra Malika Imhotep: "an armistice between my dea...
4 min
1244
Max Eastman: "X Rays"
4 min
1245
Alice Corbin Henderson: "From the Stone Age"
4 min
1246
Camonghne Felix: "Dearly Departed, Again I Drea...
3 min
1247
Chloe Honum: "Devonport"
2 min
1248
Corrie Lynn White: "After Striving"
2 min
1249
Destiny Hemphill: "our own names"
3 min
1250
Diana Marie Delgado: "People to Run From"
3 min