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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Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1577
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1578
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1579
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1580
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1581
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1582
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1583
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1584
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1585
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1586
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1587
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1588
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1589
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1590
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1591
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1592
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1593
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1594
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1595
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1596
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1597
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1598
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1599
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1600
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min