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
1126
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1127
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1128
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1129
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1130
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min
1131
Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in S...
1 min
1132
Waring Cuney: "No Images"
1 min
1133
Gail Mazur: "The Flea"
3 min
1134
Brandon D. Johnson: "Standing by a Shelf"
3 min
1135
Carl Phillips: "Why So This Quiet"
2 min
1136
Laure-Anne Bosselaar: "Late Afternoon Stroll on...
3 min
1137
E. Ethelbert Miller: "Crossing the Line"
2 min
1138
Helene Johnson: "Trees at Night"
2 min
1139
Arna Bontemps: "Length of Moon"
1 min
1140
Kimiko Hahn: "[The whale already]"
2 min
1141
Robert Pinsky: "Revisionary"
3 min
1142
Martín Espada: "Wake Up, Mario"
9 min
1143
Marilyn Nelson: "Last Mattress"
3 min
1144
Garrett Hongo: "On 'Phantasmagorique #15,' a Pa...
3 min
1145
Clarissa Scott Delany: "Joy"
1 min
1146
Langston Hughes: "As I Grew Older"
2 min
1147
Linda Susan Jackson: "Nailing Things Down"
3 min
1148
Joel Dias-Porter: "Three Wrong Notes"
3 min
1149
Sharon Olds: "Not Once"
3 min
1150
Yusef Komunyakaa: from “Autobiography of My Alt...
5 min