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
Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was ...
4 min
1127
Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"
3 min
1128
Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"
3 min
1129
Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"
3 min
1130
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
1131
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
1132
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
1133
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
1134
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
1135
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
1136
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
1137
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
1138
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
1139
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
1140
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min
1141
Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cic...
3 min
1142
Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"
5 min
1143
Anne Reeve Aldrich: "Rose Song"
3 min
1144
Destiny O. Birdsong: "I Go Back to Myself, Apri...
4 min
1145
Kayleb Rae Candrilli: "Daytona 500"
3 min
1146
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The Understudy"
3 min
1147
Diamond Forde: "Rememory"
4 min
1148
Rajiv Mohabir: "Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two"
2 min
1149
Guest Editor Interview: August 2022 Guest Edito...
14 min
1150
George Santayana: "Cape Cod"
3 min