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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Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1652
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1653
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1654
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1655
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1656
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1657
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1658
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1659
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1660
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1661
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1662
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1663
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1664
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1665
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1666
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1667
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1668
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1669
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1670
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1671
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1672
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1673
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1674
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1675
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min