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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Arisa White: "Curious and Counting"
2 min
1252
Nikky Finney: "The Inflammation"
8 min
1253
Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was ...
4 min
1254
Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"
3 min
1255
Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"
3 min
1256
Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"
3 min
1257
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
1258
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
1259
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
1260
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
1261
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
1262
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
1263
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
1264
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
1265
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
1266
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
1267
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min
1268
Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cic...
3 min
1269
Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"
5 min
1270
Anne Reeve Aldrich: "Rose Song"
3 min
1271
Destiny O. Birdsong: "I Go Back to Myself, Apri...
4 min
1272
Kayleb Rae Candrilli: "Daytona 500"
3 min
1273
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The Understudy"
3 min
1274
Diamond Forde: "Rememory"
4 min
1275
Rajiv Mohabir: "Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two"
2 min