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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Kate Rushin : "Venus & Serena Play Doubles On C...
3 min
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Jacqueline Woodson: "Absolute"
2 min
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Antoinette Brim-Bell: "Duplex: Black Mamas Pray...
1 min
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Kortney Morrow: "American Girl Dolls Attend Man...
3 min
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Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "The Black Queen"
0 min
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Songs for the Pe...
1 min
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Nikki Grimes: "You Still Dream"
1 min
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Dawn Lundy Martin: From “Perspective is Suppose...
1 min
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Micah Daniels: "The Secret of Youth"
1 min
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Rhonda M. Ward: "Legacy"
2 min
2186
Kara Jackson: "fleeing"
1 min
2187
Ann Plato: "Forget Me Not"
2 min
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Irvin W. Underhill: "Solitude"
1 min
2189
Tongo Eisen-Martin: "I Do Not Know the Spelling...
2 min
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L. Ash Williams: "Red Wine Spills"
2 min
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Barbara Fant : "My dad buried two dogs in the b...
2 min
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Jason Reynolds: "Match"
1 min
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Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"
2 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Puppet Player"
0 min
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Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "I Saw You"
1 min
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Crystal Valentine: "This Little Light of Mine S...
4 min
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Luther Hughes: "My Mother, My Mother"
4 min
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Rasheed Copeland: "When Puffy says, and we won’...
2 min
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Yesenia Montilla: "a brief meditation on breath"
3 min
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Jive Poetic: "Assume the Position"
2 min