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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Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
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Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
2128
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
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Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
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Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
2131
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
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Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
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Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
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Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
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Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
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Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
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Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
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George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
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Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
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Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
2141
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
2142
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
2143
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
2144
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
2145
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
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Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
2147
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
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Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
2149
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
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Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min