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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Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1777
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min
1778
Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in S...
1 min
1779
Waring Cuney: "No Images"
1 min
1780
Gail Mazur: "The Flea"
3 min
1781
Brandon D. Johnson: "Standing by a Shelf"
3 min
1782
Carl Phillips: "Why So This Quiet"
2 min
1783
Laure-Anne Bosselaar: "Late Afternoon Stroll on...
3 min
1784
E. Ethelbert Miller: "Crossing the Line"
2 min
1785
Helene Johnson: "Trees at Night"
2 min
1786
Arna Bontemps: "Length of Moon"
1 min
1787
Kimiko Hahn: "[The whale already]"
2 min
1788
Robert Pinsky: "Revisionary"
3 min
1789
Martín Espada: "Wake Up, Mario"
9 min
1790
Marilyn Nelson: "Last Mattress"
3 min
1791
Garrett Hongo: "On 'Phantasmagorique #15,' a Pa...
3 min
1792
Clarissa Scott Delany: "Joy"
1 min
1793
Langston Hughes: "As I Grew Older"
2 min
1794
Linda Susan Jackson: "Nailing Things Down"
3 min
1795
Joel Dias-Porter: "Three Wrong Notes"
3 min
1796
Sharon Olds: "Not Once"
3 min
1797
Yusef Komunyakaa: from “Autobiography of My Alt...
5 min
1798
Guest Editor Interview: February 2022 Guest Edi...
10 min
1799
Tamiko Beyer: February
4 min
1800
Sara Teasdale: "The Crystal Gazer"
1 min