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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Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sash...
15 min
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
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Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
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Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
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Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
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Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
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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
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Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
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Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
2162
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
2163
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
2164
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
2167
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
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Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
2169
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
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June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
2171
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
2172
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
2173
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
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Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
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Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min