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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Terrance Hayes: "Vintage Vanity"
6 min
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Love’s Language"
3 min
178
Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"
3 min
179
Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"
4 min
180
Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"
2 min
181
MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "
3 min
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Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"
2 min
183
William Moore: "Expectancy"
3 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"
3 min
185
Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"
3 min
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Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"
3 min
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Youna Kwak: "After [I never feel so alive as wh...
2 min
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Aldrin Regina Valdez: "January”
2 min
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m.s. RedCherries: "playing america in spring
1 min
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Blanche Taylor Dickinson: "Things Said When He ...
3 min
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Frank Barbour Coffin: "The Negro’s 'America'”
3 min
192
Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Edi...
23 min
193
Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
3 min
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Catherine Bowman: "Pears"
3 min
195
James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"
1 min
196
Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"
2 min
197
Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the g...
8 min
198
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"
4 min
199
Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"
2 min
200
Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"
3 min