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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Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1777
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1778
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1779
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1780
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1781
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1782
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1783
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1784
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1785
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1786
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1787
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1788
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1789
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1790
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1791
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1792
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1793
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1794
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1795
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1796
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min
1797
William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of A...
1 min
1798
Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"
3 min
1799
Dorianne Laux: "I Never Wanted to Die"
2 min
1800
David St. John: "Overlooking the Cortile"
3 min