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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Joy Ladin: “Forgetting”
3 min
202
Pramila Venkateswaran: “Body Language”
3 min
203
Julia Kolchinsky: “Naming”
4 min
204
Tarfia Faizullah: “Wait Until It Grows Roots”
1 min
205
Naomi Shihab Nye: “In a Village in the West Bank”
4 min
206
Vievee Francis: “The Poems Repeat as Dreams as ...
2 min
207
Robin Coste Lewis: “Cavafy in Compton/Closet An...
4 min
208
Gloria Gervitz, translated by Mark Schafer: Fro...
6 min
209
Varsha Saraiya-Shah: “Anthem for America”
4 min
210
Edward Hirsch: “My First Bookstore”
4 min
211
David St. John: “Venetian Farewells”
4 min
212
T. R. Hummer: “Who Remembers Davenport”
3 min
213
Nicholas Christopher: “1943”
2 min
214
Sally Wen Mao: “Willow, Stop Weeping”
5 min
215
Amie Whittemore: “Future History of Earth’s Birds”
3 min
216
Usha Akella: “Breaking bread with phonemes”
3 min
217
Amy Glynn: “For Leslie”
3 min
218
David Mura: “Vegas Rave Muse”
2 min
219
Lauren K. Watel: “The Last Act”
3 min
220
Michael Collier: “The Globe”
3 min
221
Keetje Kuipers: “10,000 Acres Burned”
3 min
222
Andrew Calis: “The Sea / Is Sacred Still”
3 min
223
Sophia Naz: “To Bear the Right”
3 min
224
Tomás Q. Morín: “Bird”
3 min
225
Jenny Xie: “Le Temps Mort”
2 min