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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Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1627
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1628
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1629
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1630
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1631
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1632
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1633
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1634
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1635
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1636
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1637
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1638
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1639
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1640
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1641
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1642
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1643
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1644
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1645
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1646
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
1647
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
1648
Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
1649
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min
1650
Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fi...
3 min