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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.

Tony Medina: "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"

3 mins; February 19, 2024

Georgia Douglas Johnson: "The Octoroon"

3 mins; February 18, 2024

Julius C. Wright: "Going to the Picnic"

5 mins; February 17, 2024

Niki Herd: "From 'The Stuff of Hollywood'”

3 mins; February 16, 2024

Rain Prud’homme-Cranford: "Gills"

5 mins; February 15, 2024

Kelly Norman Ellis: "Saturday Class: Janie Crawford is Grown"

3 mins; February 14, 2024

Lucille Clifton: "[poets in their bassinets]"

2 mins; February 13, 2024

Herman Beavers: "On Seventh Avenue at Slaptime "

4 mins; February 12, 2024

Maggie Pogue Johnson: "Poet of Our Race"

5 mins; February 11, 2024

Sterling A. Brown: "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

5 mins; February 10, 2024

Cherise Pollard: "Nodes of Growth"

4 mins; February 09, 2024

Anthony Walton: "Alzheimer’s"

4 mins; February 08, 2024

Kwoya Fagin Maples: "Invisible Work"

4 mins; February 07, 2024

Eve L. Ewing: "eschatology"

3 mins; February 06, 2024

A. Van Jordan: "'Integrated School Books' Arpeggio"

4 mins; February 05, 2024

Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Stars in Alabama"

3 mins; February 04, 2024

Langston Hughes: "Sport"

3 mins; February 03, 2024

Brad Walrond: "Calculus I, II, III"

3 mins; February 02, 2024

Balo Salo: "Counsel to a Bridegroom"

3 mins; February 01, 2024

Jay Wright: "[Song into holiness]"

3 mins; January 31, 2024

Guest Editor Interview: February 2024 Guest Editor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

17 mins; January 31, 2024

Mahogany L. Browne: "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

7 mins; January 30, 2024

Melissa Range: "First South"

6 mins; January 29, 2024

H. D.: "Projector"

7 mins; January 28, 2024

John Donne: "Love's Growth"

4 mins; January 27, 2024

Ishion Hutchinson: "Club Paradise"

8 mins; January 26, 2024

Valzhyna Mort: "In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks"

3 mins; January 25, 2024

Jordan Kapono Nakamura: "Interview"

4 mins; January 24, 2024

Myronn Hardy: "To the Air"

3 mins; January 23, 2024

Colleen J. McElroy: "The Lost Breath of Trees"

6 mins; January 22, 2024

Laura Riding Jackson: "The Quids"

6 mins; January 21, 2024

Francis Thompson: "To a Snowflake"

3 mins; January 20, 2024

Mutsuo Takahashi: "Dead Boy"

5 mins; January 19, 2024

Marilyn Hacker: "Montpeyroux Sonnets"

8 mins; January 18, 2024

Jason Allen-Paisant: "And You . . ."

3 mins; January 17, 2024

Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Phragmites"

4 mins; January 16, 2024

Rickey Laurentiis: "Hermaphrodite"

3 mins; January 15, 2024

Gerard Manley Hopkins: "The Habit of Perfection"

4 mins; January 14, 2024

Sir Geoffrey Hill: "Genius Loci"

5 mins; January 13, 2024

Vievee Francis: "Clarity"

3 mins; January 12, 2024

Gregory Pardlo: "Giornata 4"

3 mins; January 11, 2024

Tyree Daye: "The Lord's Corner"

3 mins; January 10, 2024

R. A. Villanueva: "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

3 mins; January 09, 2024

Margo Berdeshevsky: "Somewhere Everywhere"

7 mins; January 08, 2024

Vita Sackville-West: From "'The Land' [Shepherds and stars are quiet with the hills]"

6 mins; January 07, 2024

A. A. Milne: "Furry Bear"

3 mins; January 06, 2024

Malika Booker: "Jesus in the Wilderness"

6 mins; January 05, 2024

Marie-Ovide Dorcely: "Sojourner"

3 mins; January 04, 2024

Richard Scott: "Peridot"

4 mins; January 03, 2024

Amanda Johnston: "Bogeymen"

2 mins; January 02, 2024

Adam Wiedewitsch: "If Night You Were a City"

5 mins; January 01, 2024

Emily Dickinson: "One Year ago—jots what? (296)"

4 mins; December 31, 2023

Wilfred Owen: "Winter Song"

3 mins; December 30, 2023

Guest Editor Interview: January 2024 Guest Editor Dante Micheaux

15 mins; December 30, 2023

Cal Bedient: "Expulsion"

4 mins; December 29, 2023

Harryette Mullen: "Weathering Hate"

4 mins; December 28, 2023

Lynn Xu: "[Sun-messenger]"

2 mins; December 27, 2023

Brenda Hillman: "Porcelain Musician in a Child’s Bedroom"

3 mins; December 26, 2023

Timothy Donnelly: "Habitable Nebula"

3 mins; December 25, 2023

T. S. Eliot: "Journey of the Magi"

5 mins; December 24, 2023

Christina Rossetti: "[A rose has thorns as well as honey,]"

3 mins; December 23, 2023

Juliana Huxtable: "KEY AND STRING"

4 mins; December 22, 2023

Ariana Reines: "The Economy"

6 mins; December 21, 2023

Tongo Eisen-Martin: "The Patient Ones"

3 mins; December 20, 2023

Mónica de la Torre: "Theorem of Sorts"

5 mins; December 19, 2023

Jericho Brown: "Lenoir"

4 mins; December 18, 2023

John Clare: "Sheep in Winter"

4 mins; December 17, 2023

Anne Bradstreet: "Winter"

5 mins; December 16, 2023

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs: "suffering succotash"

6 mins; December 15, 2023

Caleb Femi: "Baseline"

2 mins; December 14, 2023

Joshua Weiner: "Solstice in Truro"

3 mins; December 13, 2023

Nancy Kuhl: "Family Secret"

3 mins; December 12, 2023

Juliana Spahr: "Ode to Goby"

5 mins; December 11, 2023

Arthur Symons: "The Crying of Water"

4 mins; December 10, 2023

Margaret Widdemer: "The Dark Cavalier"

4 mins; December 09, 2023

Mia Kang: "Abracadabra"

4 mins; December 08, 2023

Jerome Ellison Murphy: "Hanging"

3 mins; December 07, 2023

Lisa Sewell: "The Land of Nod"

4 mins; December 06, 2023

Kinsale Drake: "(Re)location"

3 mins; December 05, 2023

Brian Blanchfield: "Learning"

4 mins; December 04, 2023

MacKnight Black: "Corliss Engine"

3 mins; December 03, 2023

Mina Loy: "[There is no Life or Death,]

3 mins; December 02, 2023

Ira Sadoff: "Thank You"

4 mins; December 01, 2023

Travis Chi Wing Lau: "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"

3 mins; November 30, 2023

Guest Editor Interview: December 2023 Guest Editor Claudia Rankine

14 mins; November 29, 2023

Brian Turner: "Corsair"

3 mins; November 29, 2023

Matthew Minicucci: "Nostalgia"

4 mins; November 28, 2023

Ruben Quesada: "East of Wyoming, I Remember Matthew Shephard"

3 mins; November 27, 2023

D’arcy McNickle: "The Mountains"

5 mins; November 26, 2023

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: "To the Miscodeed"

4 mins; November 25, 2023

Tobias Wray: "The Last Orgasm"

4 mins; November 24, 2023

Clemonce Heard: "Bicuspid"

3 mins; November 23, 2023

Catherine Barnett: "The Specious Present"

3 mins; November 22, 2023

Shelley Wong: "A Marriage at Ancestral Hall in Sun Village"

4 mins; November 21, 2023

Kathy Fagan: "What I Was Looking For"

3 mins; November 20, 2023

Too-qua-stee: "A Vision of the End"

5 mins; November 19, 2023

Zitkála-Šá: "The Indian’s Awakening"

10 mins; November 18, 2023

Matthew Olzmann: "The Earthlings"

3 mins; November 17, 2023

Lupita Eyde-Tucker: "Without Reparations"

4 mins; November 16, 2023

Matt W. Miller: "Far Away"

4 mins; November 15, 2023

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