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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George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
1677
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
1678
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
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Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
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A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
1681
April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
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Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
1683
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
1684
Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
1685
Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
1686
Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
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Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
1688
Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
1689
Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
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Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
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Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
1692
Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
1693
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1694
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1695
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1696
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
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Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1698
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
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Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
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Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min