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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Pamela Sneed: "I Can't Breathe"
3 min
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Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
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Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
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Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
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Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
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Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
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Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
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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
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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
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Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
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Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
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Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
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Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
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William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
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E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
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Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
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Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
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Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
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Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
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Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min