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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Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1677
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1678
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1679
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1680
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1681
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1682
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1683
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1684
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1685
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1686
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1687
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1688
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1689
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1690
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1691
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1692
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1693
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1694
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1695
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1696
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1697
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1698
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1699
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
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José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min