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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June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1677
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1678
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1679
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1680
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1681
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1682
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1683
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1684
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1685
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1686
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1687
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1688
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1689
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1690
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1691
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1692
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1693
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1694
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1695
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1696
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1697
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1698
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1699
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1700
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min