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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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
1377
Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
1378
Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
1379
Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
1380
Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
1381
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
1382
Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
1383
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
1384
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
1385
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
1386
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
1387
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
1388
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
1389
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
1390
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
1391
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1392
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1393
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1394
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1395
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1396
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1397
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1398
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1399
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
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Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min