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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Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1577
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
1578
Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
1579
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1580
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
1581
Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1582
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1583
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1584
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1585
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1586
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1587
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1588
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1589
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1590
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1591
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1592
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1593
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1594
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1595
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1596
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1597
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1598
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1599
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1600
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min