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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John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1552
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1553
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1554
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1555
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1556
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1557
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1558
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1559
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1560
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1561
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1562
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1563
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1564
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1565
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1566
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
1567
Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
1568
Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min
1569
Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyho...
4 min
1570
Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
2 min
1571
Nick Demske: "I let the flies bite me when I me...
3 min
1572
Effie Lee Newsome: "Sunset"
1 min
1573
Tu Fu: "The River Village"
2 min
1574
Cammy Thomas: "French Toast"
2 min
1575
Timmy Straw: "Copernicus"
3 min