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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Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1552
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1553
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1554
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1555
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min
1556
Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in S...
1 min
1557
Waring Cuney: "No Images"
1 min
1558
Gail Mazur: "The Flea"
3 min
1559
Brandon D. Johnson: "Standing by a Shelf"
3 min
1560
Carl Phillips: "Why So This Quiet"
2 min
1561
Laure-Anne Bosselaar: "Late Afternoon Stroll on...
3 min
1562
E. Ethelbert Miller: "Crossing the Line"
2 min
1563
Helene Johnson: "Trees at Night"
2 min
1564
Arna Bontemps: "Length of Moon"
1 min
1565
Kimiko Hahn: "[The whale already]"
2 min
1566
Robert Pinsky: "Revisionary"
3 min
1567
Martín Espada: "Wake Up, Mario"
9 min
1568
Marilyn Nelson: "Last Mattress"
3 min
1569
Garrett Hongo: "On 'Phantasmagorique #15,' a Pa...
3 min
1570
Clarissa Scott Delany: "Joy"
1 min
1571
Langston Hughes: "As I Grew Older"
2 min
1572
Linda Susan Jackson: "Nailing Things Down"
3 min
1573
Joel Dias-Porter: "Three Wrong Notes"
3 min
1574
Sharon Olds: "Not Once"
3 min
1575
Yusef Komunyakaa: from “Autobiography of My Alt...
5 min