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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Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1652
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1653
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1654
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1655
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1656
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1657
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1658
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1659
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1660
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1661
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1662
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1663
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1664
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1665
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1666
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1667
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1668
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
1669
Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
1670
Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min
1671
Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyho...
4 min
1672
Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
2 min
1673
Nick Demske: "I let the flies bite me when I me...
3 min
1674
Effie Lee Newsome: "Sunset"
1 min
1675
Tu Fu: "The River Village"
2 min