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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Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1577
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1578
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
1579
Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1580
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1581
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
1582
Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
1583
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1584
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1585
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1586
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1587
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1588
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1589
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1590
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1591
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1592
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1593
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1594
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1595
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1596
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1597
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1598
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1599
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1600
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min