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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George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
2127
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
2128
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
2129
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
2130
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
2131
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
2132
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
2133
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
2134
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
2135
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
2136
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
2137
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
2138
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
2139
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
2140
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
2141
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
2142
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
2143
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
2144
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
2145
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
2146
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
2147
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
2148
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
2149
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
2150
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min