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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Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1527
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1528
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1529
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1530
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1531
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1532
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1533
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1534
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1535
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1536
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1537
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1538
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1539
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1540
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1541
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1542
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1543
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1544
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1545
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1546
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1547
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1548
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1549
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
1550
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min