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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Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1652
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1653
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1654
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1655
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1656
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1657
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1658
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1659
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1660
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1661
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1662
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1663
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1664
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1665
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1666
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1667
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1668
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1669
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1670
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1671
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1672
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1673
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1674
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1675
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min