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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June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1377
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1378
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1379
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1380
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1381
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1382
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1383
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1384
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1385
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1386
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1387
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1388
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1389
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1390
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1391
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1392
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1393
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1394
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1395
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1396
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1397
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1398
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1399
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1400
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min