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
901
Tommye Blount: "An Act of Love"
3 min
902
francine j. harris: "Wetland"
3 min
903
Taylor Byas: "Love Poem Attempt 3/?"
3 min
904
Sterling A. Brown: "Challenge"
2 min
905
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "The Venus of Milo"
3 min
906
Joy Priest: "When I See the Stars in the Night ...
3 min
907
Willie Lee Kinard III: "Aubade: Nocturne"
5 min
908
Ariana Benson: "Love Poem in the Black Field"
3 min
909
Arlene Keizer: "Canopy"
2 min
910
Nkosi Nkululeko: "Continental Breakfast"
3 min
911
Claude McKay: "When Dawn Comes to the City"
5 min
912
Anne Spencer: "Substitution"
3 min
913
Imani Davis: "Kink"
3 min
914
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "Brown Estate, 2018 T...
3 min
915
Evie Shockley: "black love"
2 min
916
Guest Editor Interview: February 2023 Guest Edi...
13 min
917
Dorothea Lasky: "This Beautiful Planet"
3 min
918
Ra Malika Imhotep: "an armistice between my dea...
4 min
919
Max Eastman: "X Rays"
4 min
920
Alice Corbin Henderson: "From the Stone Age"
4 min
921
Camonghne Felix: "Dearly Departed, Again I Drea...
3 min
922
Chloe Honum: "Devonport"
2 min
923
Corrie Lynn White: "After Striving"
2 min
924
Destiny Hemphill: "our own names"
3 min
925
Diana Marie Delgado: "People to Run From"
3 min