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