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12/13/2022
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"Onta" by Dan Beachy-Quick

No ceremony for the initiation into facts— Facebook Twitter Instagram December 13, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift Onta Dan Beachy-Quick No ceremony for the initiation into facts—
12/13/2022
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Where Poem-a-Day takes us each morning

Poetry helps us discover “imaginative worlds for the heart and mind to dwell in.” Dear Reader, I'm heartened each morning as I open my Poem-a-Day email, envisioning thousands of readers around the
12/12/2022
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"Rendering from 'Historia Verdadera: Capítulo CLII'" by Chloe Garcia Roberts

And he [[Cuauhtémoc] ordered a horn to be sounded Facebook Twitter Instagram December 12, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift Rendering from “Historia Verdadera: Capítulo CLII” Chloe
12/11/2022
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from “Parallax” by Nancy Cunard

This thin edge of December / Wears out meagrely in the / Cold muds, rains, intolerable nauseas of the street. Facebook Twitter Instagram December 11, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end
12/10/2022
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"A Tale" by Louise Bogan

This youth too long has heard the break / Of waters in a land of change. Facebook Twitter Instagram December 10, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift A Tale Louise Bogan This youth too
12/9/2022
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"Deathscape Lullaby" by Cynthia Cruz

Broken crimson / Mercedes sedan. // Cotton-wood, milk-weed. / The taste of cold metal Facebook Twitter Instagram December 9, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift Deathscape Lullaby
12/8/2022
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Announcing Twelve New Poem-a-Day Guest Editors for 2023

December 8, 2022 Dear Reader, Each year the Academy of American Poets asks twelve accomplished poets to serve for a month as guest editor of Poem-a-Day, one of the largest platforms featuring poets
12/8/2022
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"Nike of Samothrace" by Mark Irwin

—Her fish scales, her chains, the woman's headless / wings and blown Facebook Twitter Instagram December 8, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift Nike of Samothrace Mark Irwin —Her
12/7/2022
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Poems and Lesson Plans for the Holidays

The poems and videos for Dear Poet 2023 are now available Facebook Twitter Instagram December 2022 Every National Poetry Month we present Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invites young
12/7/2022
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"Grandfather" by A. Van Jordan

grand·fa·ther. (noun) 1. the father of one's father or mother: As in, my father's father, my grandfather, sharecropped on a farm in Midway, AL. Facebook Twitter Instagram December 7, 2022
12/6/2022
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"Full moon rising on the waters of my heart"

December 6, 2022 Celebrating December In honor of December, read poems by a few poets born this month from Poets.org: “[Again and again, even though we know love's landscape]” by Rainer Maria Rilke
12/6/2022
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"Triptych" by Sherwin Bitsui

His wind-swirled fingertips / untangle the roots of salt water, Facebook Twitter Instagram December 6, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift Triptych Sherwin Bitsui His wind-swirled
12/5/2022
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"At Sixty-Five" by Henri Cole

It was all so different than he expected. Facebook Twitter Instagram December 5, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift At Sixty-Five Henri Cole It was all so different than he expected.
12/4/2022
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"The Aim Was Song" by Robert Frost

Before man came to blow it right / The wind once blew itself untaught, Facebook Twitter Instagram December 4, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift The Aim Was Song Robert Frost Before
12/3/2022
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"To a Wreath of Snow" by Emily Brontë

O transient voyager of heaven! / O silent sign of winter skies! Facebook Twitter Instagram December 3, 2022 Made possible thanks to readers like you. To a Wreath of Snow Emily Brontë O transient
12/2/2022
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"Sunflowers" by Jenny George

I'm in the world but I still want the world. Facebook Twitter Instagram December 2, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift Sunflowers Jenny George I'm in the world but I still
12/1/2022
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"Inupiaq Women" by dg nanouk okpik

She paddles and streams / her kayak up Kobuck River. Facebook Twitter Instagram December 1, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day with a Special Year-end Gift Inupiaq Women dg nanouk okpik She paddles and streams
11/30/2022
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"Still Life of Cárdenas Hacienda with Cats" by Victoriano Cárdenas

there was a house at the bottom of a mountain / sunbaked mud and straw and as tiny as a heart Facebook Twitter Instagram November 30, 2022 Support Poem-a-Day Still Life of Cárdenas Hacienda with Cats
11/29/2022
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"the orbit of gratitude, music over our heads"

Make a Giving Tuesday gift November 29, 2022 Poems for Giving Tuesday This Giving Tuesday, enjoy poems reflecting on gratitude, togetherness, and tenderness. “Around Us” by Marvin Bell “One Today” by
11/29/2022
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"Unarcheology of 'Father'" by George Abraham

Baba, I held your hand as you were dying Facebook Twitter Instagram November 29, 2022 Make a gift for Giving Tuesday Unarcheology of 'Father' George Abraham a Markov Sonnet, with thanks to