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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Michelle Whittaker: "Our Quarantine Story"
3 min
1552
Janine Joseph: "Oh, I’m Dying, I’m Dying,"
3 min
1553
Catherine Barnett: "2020"
3 min
1554
Adelaide Crapsey: "Saying of Il Haboul"
2 min
1555
Hazel Hall: "Disputed Tread"
2 min
1556
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Pole| |Sport"
4 min
1557
Arisa White: "Curious and Counting"
2 min
1558
Nikky Finney: "The Inflammation"
8 min
1559
Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was ...
4 min
1560
Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"
3 min
1561
Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"
3 min
1562
Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"
3 min
1563
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
1564
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
1565
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
1566
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
1567
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
1568
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
1569
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
1570
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
1571
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
1572
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
1573
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min
1574
Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cic...
3 min
1575
Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"
5 min