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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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
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James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
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Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
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Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min
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Garous Abdolmalekian: "The Ruins of Bam"
1 min
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Franny Choi: "Hangul Abecedarian"
0 min
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Gregory Pardlo: From "Giornata: On Faith"
0 min
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John Yau: "A Painter’s Thoughts"
2 min
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Bertrand N. O. Walker: "An Indian Love Song"
1 min
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: "Yesterday and To-morrow"
1 min