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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Toru Dutt: "Our Casuarina Tree"
5 min
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Alice Meynell: "To a Daisy"
3 min
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Gail Wronsky: "The Moon Is in Labor"
2 min
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Regan Good: "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows fro...
4 min
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Onyedikachi Chinedu: "Snail-Picking"
4 min
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Lisa Fay Coutley: "Holocene Sonnet"
3 min
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Allison Benis White: "Description of Symptoms"
3 min
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Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Rain Fugue"
4 min
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Laura Riding Jackson: "Prisms"
4 min
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Christian Gullette: "Palm Springs"
3 min
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Richie Hofmann: "Lamb"
3 min
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Aaron Smith: "Sissy"
2 min
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Bryan Byrdlong: "Ode to Black Air Forces"
3 min
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Monica Rico: "A Lesson from my Father about Ele...
3 min
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Anna Akhmatova: "[Like a white stone]"
3 min
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Aphra Behn: "In Imitation of Horace"
4 min
1317
Jennifer Franklin: "Preparing for Residential P...
3 min
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Patrick Donnelly: "Dirk McDermott"
3 min
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Gustavo Hernandez: "Summer, You're a Boneyard"
3 min
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Laura Da’: "The Honest Tongue"
3 min
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Aaron Coleman: "'South of the North, yet north ...
3 min
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George Eliot: "I Grant You Ample Leave"
4 min
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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: "Enchantment"
3 min
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Tommy Archuleta: "Ancestry"
3 min
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Maxine Scates: "Look"
3 min