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
1627
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1628
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1629
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1630
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1631
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1632
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1633
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1634
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1635
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1636
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1637
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1638
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1639
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1640
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1641
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1642
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1643
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1644
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1645
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min
1646
William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of A...
1 min
1647
Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"
3 min
1648
Dorianne Laux: "I Never Wanted to Die"
2 min
1649
David St. John: "Overlooking the Cortile"
3 min
1650
Brian Sneeden: "Memory is Blood Soluble"
3 min