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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Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1652
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1653
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1654
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1655
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1656
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1657
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1658
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1659
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1660
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1661
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1662
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1663
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1664
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1665
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1666
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1667
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1668
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1669
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1670
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1671
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1672
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1673
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
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Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1675
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min