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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Eva A. Jessye: "To a Rosebud"
1 min
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George Marion McClellan: "The Sun Went Down in ...
1 min
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Toi Derricotte: "Why I don’t write about George...
1 min
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Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Measured"
3 min
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Marissa Davis: "Singularity"
3 min
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A. Van Jordan: "Afterward but not Afterword"
2 min
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April Freely: "Every Verb is a Lesson in Longin...
2 min
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Countee Cullen: "If You Should Go"
0 min
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Charles Bertram Johnson: "Now and Then"
1 min
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Sasha Debevec-McKenney: "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PR...
2 min
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Gbenga Adesina: "Glory"
1 min
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Joshua Bennett: "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
2 min
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Kristina Kay Robinson: "Contemplating Extinctio...
2 min
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Elizabeth Acevedo: "Ode to the Head Nod"
2 min
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Effie Lee Newsome: "Peacock Feather"
0 min
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Langston Hughes: "My People"
1 min
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Priscilla Jane Thompson: "Emancipation"
2 min
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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