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 Thea Matthews. 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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Terrance Hayes: "Vintage Vanity"
6 min
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Love’s Language"
3 min
203
Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"
3 min
204
Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"
4 min
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Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"
2 min
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MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "
3 min
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Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"
2 min
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William Moore: "Expectancy"
3 min
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Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"
3 min
210
Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"
3 min
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Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"
3 min
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Youna Kwak: "After [I never feel so alive as wh...
2 min
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Aldrin Regina Valdez: "January”
2 min
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m.s. RedCherries: "playing america in spring
1 min
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Blanche Taylor Dickinson: "Things Said When He ...
3 min
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Frank Barbour Coffin: "The Negro’s 'America'”
3 min
217
Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Edi...
23 min
218
Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
3 min
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Catherine Bowman: "Pears"
3 min
220
James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"
1 min
221
Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"
2 min
222
Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the g...
8 min
223
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"
4 min
224
Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"
2 min
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Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"
3 min