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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Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1577
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1578
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1579
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1580
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1581
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1582
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1583
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1584
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1585
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1586
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1587
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1588
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1589
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1590
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1591
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1592
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1593
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1594
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1595
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1596
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1597
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min
1598
William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of A...
1 min
1599
Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"
3 min
1600
Dorianne Laux: "I Never Wanted to Die"
2 min