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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Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
2152
Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
2153
Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
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Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
2155
Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min
2156
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Hope."
0 min
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James D. Corrothers: "Dream and the Song"
2 min
2158
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers: "Selah"
2 min
2159
Evie Shockley: "sonnet for the long second act"
2 min
2160
Cornelius Eady: "Diabolic"
2 min
2161
Derrick Harriell: "Underground King"
4 min
2162
Allison Joseph: "Untethered"
2 min
2163
Otto Leland Bohanan: "Go Give the World"
0 min
2164
J. W. Hammond: "The Optimist"
1 min
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Enzo Silon Surin: "When Night Fills with Premat...
1 min
2166
Sean Hill: "Governor’s Mansion Hands"
7 min
2167
Danielle Legros Georges: "What is Water?"
1 min
2168
Krysten Hill: "Nothing"
3 min
2169
Jabari Asim: "Some Call It God"
3 min
2170
Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
2171
George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
2172
Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
2173
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
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Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
2175
A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min