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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Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
2152
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
2153
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
2154
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
2155
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
2156
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
2157
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
2158
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
2159
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
2160
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
2161
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
2162
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
2163
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
2164
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
2165
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
2166
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
2167
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
2168
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
2169
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
2170
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
2171
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
2172
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
2173
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
2174
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
2175
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min