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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Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
2177
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
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Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
2179
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
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Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
2181
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
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Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
2183
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
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Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
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James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
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Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
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Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
2188
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
2189
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
2190
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
2191
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
2192
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
2193
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
2194
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
2195
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
2196
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
2197
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
2198
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
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James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
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Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min