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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
776
Michelle Whittaker: "Our Quarantine Story"
3 min
777
Janine Joseph: "Oh, I’m Dying, I’m Dying,"
3 min
778
Catherine Barnett: "2020"
3 min
779
Adelaide Crapsey: "Saying of Il Haboul"
2 min
780
Hazel Hall: "Disputed Tread"
2 min
781
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "​​Pole| |Sport"
4 min
782
Arisa White: "Curious and Counting"
2 min
783
Nikky Finney: "The Inflammation"
8 min
784
Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was ...
4 min
785
Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"
3 min
786
Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"
3 min
787
Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"
3 min
788
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
789
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
790
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
791
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
792
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
793
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
794
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
795
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
796
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
797
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
798
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min
799
Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cic...
3 min
800
Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"
5 min