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 Thea Matthews. 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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Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
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June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
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Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1304
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1305
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
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Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
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Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
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Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1309
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
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Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1311
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1312
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1313
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1314
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
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Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
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Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1317
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1318
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
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Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1320
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
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Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1322
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1323
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1324
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
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Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min