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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Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1577
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1578
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1579
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1580
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1581
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1582
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1583
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1584
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1585
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1586
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1587
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1588
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1589
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1590
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1591
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1592
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1593
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1594
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1595
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1596
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1597
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1598
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1599
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1600
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min