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5/12/2023
10 : 15
"Pedagogy" by Sam Sax
now she's gone my teacher wants to know / where the speaker enters the poem Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 12, 2023 Pedagogy Sam Sax now she's gone my teacher wants to know
5/12/2023
7 : 35
"Three Months Since" by Jade Cho
My father's last breath is still the blade / that pares and cleaves me open. Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 10, 2023 Three Months Since Jade Cho My father's last breath is
5/12/2023
7 : 16
"Sidereal" by Debra Allbery
Consider this an elegy with silo and fever. Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 11, 2023 Sidereal Debra Allbery Consider this an elegy with silo and fever. Call it barn and gravel and
5/12/2023
7 : 4
Poems for Mother's Day & Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
Plus browse poems for graduation Facebook Twitter Instagram May 2023 Mother's Day is May 14. Celebrate with kid-friendly poems about mothers and motherhood: “My Mama moved among the days” by
5/9/2023
17 : 54
"I open the dawn of a new world"
May 9, 2023 Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month “I Want the Wide American Earth” by Carlos Bulosan “So Chinese Girl” by Dorothy Chan “Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done” by Victoria Chang “The Good
5/9/2023
10 : 14
"My Life Closed Twice" by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Liz, I think her name was, the woman / my mother brought me to. We played Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 9, 2023 My Life Closed Twice Cameron Awkward-Rich Liz, I think her name was,
5/8/2023
10 : 16
"Amsterdam" by Safia Elhillo
Concentric ripple of the canals, little apartment Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 8, 2023 Amsterdam Safia Elhillo after Jenny Xie Concentric ripple of the canals, little apartment at
5/7/2023
10 : 14
"[A frail hepatica]" by Jun Fujita
A frail hepatica / Shyly holds its fragrance Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. In honor of National Poetry Month, please consider making a gift to help cover the costs of this
5/6/2023
10 : 14
"Though from Here I Can’t Smell the Smoke" by Allison Hutchcraft
In medieval frescoes haloed saints are edged in flame Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 6, 2023 Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke Allison Hutchcraft In medieval frescoes
5/5/2023
10 : 14
"Self-Portrait as Lilith" by Elizabeth Acevedo
some days you seem / so disappointed, love but you knew Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 5, 2023 Self-Portrait as Lilith Elizabeth Acevedo some days you seem so disappointed, love but
5/4/2023
10 : 14
"Wanting a Child" by Jay Deshpande
Here in California, we can drive through any / landscape, field, flower, forest, all in reach, Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 4, 2023 Wanting a Child Jay Deshpande Here in California
5/3/2023
10 : 14
"Dirtbag" by Leigh Lucas
At the funeral, his other former girlfriend gives the eulogy. I sit in the pew. Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 3, 2023 Dirtbag Leigh Lucas At the funeral, his other former girlfriend
5/2/2023
21 : 34
"Light, my light, the world-filling light"
May 2, 2023 Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India, on May 7, 1861. Throughout his career, Tagore not only wrote and translated poetry, but published
5/2/2023
10 : 14
"In the House With No Doors" by Sarah Kay
we have given up on knocking. Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 2, 2023 In the House With No Doors Sarah Kay we have given up on knocking. Incoming! we say, with our eyes lowered for
5/1/2023
10 : 14
"Poem" by Sandra Lim
Whenever I feel loss or lack, I imagine Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Poem-a-Day May 1, 2023 Poem Sandra Lim Whenever I feel loss or lack, I imagine The wind roaming outside of my childhood's
4/30/2023
10 : 14
"[The ringèd moon sits eerily]" by William Faulkner
The ringèd moon sits eerily / Like a mad woman in the sky, Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. In honor of National Poetry Month, please consider making a gift to help cover the
4/29/2023
10 : 14
"Playing with Bees" by RK Fauth
So the world turned / its one good eye Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. In honor of National Poetry Month, please consider making a gift to help cover the costs of this
4/28/2023
11 : 44
Before National Poetry Month comes to an end
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4/28/2023
10 : 15
"Ledge" by Kevin Young
No use telling / the dead what / you've learned since Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. In honor of National Poetry Month, please consider making a gift to help cover the
4/27/2023
12 : 15
"The Splendid Body" by Rebecca Lindenberg
The splendid body is meat, flexor / and flesh pumping, pulling, anti- Facebook Twitter Instagram Poem-a-Day is reader-supported. In honor of National Poetry Month, please consider making a gift to help