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.
426
Terrance Hayes: "Vintage Vanity"
6 min
427
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Love’s Language"
3 min
428
Kinsale Drake: "Rebuke/ /Spell"
3 min
429
Zaina Alsous: "To a Young Poet"
4 min
430
Mónica Alexandra Jiménez: "Theft"
2 min
431
MaKshya Tolbert: "Ways to Measure Trees "
3 min
432
Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu: "host"
2 min
433
William Moore: "Expectancy"
3 min
434
Angelina Weld Grimké: "Surrender"
3 min
435
Omar Berrada: "A Thistle Will Do"
3 min
436
Lily Painter: "Funk (#49 song)"
3 min
437
Youna Kwak: "After [I never feel so alive as wh...
2 min
438
Aldrin Regina Valdez: "January”
2 min
439
m.s. RedCherries: "playing america in spring
1 min
440
Blanche Taylor Dickinson: "Things Said When He ...
3 min
441
Frank Barbour Coffin: "The Negro’s 'America'”
3 min
442
Robert Hass: "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
3 min
443
Guest Editor Interview: February 2025 Guest Edi...
23 min
444
Catherine Bowman: "Pears"
3 min
445
James Hannaham: " Apophasis Now"
1 min
446
Denise Duhamel: "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"
2 min
447
Hisham Bustani: "An inauspicious day from the g...
8 min
448
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "The Smile of Innocence"
4 min
449
Richard Butler Glaenzer: "Star-Magic"
2 min
450
Mark Halliday: "Hoops with Nets"
3 min