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.

Books
1151
Corrie Lynn White: "After Striving"
2 min
1152
Destiny Hemphill: "our own names"
3 min
1153
Diana Marie Delgado: "People to Run From"
3 min
1154
Alfred Kreymborg: "Dance"
2 min
1155
Elizabeth Bishop: "Behind Stowe"
3 min
1156
Erin Rose Coffin: "Remembering Our First Parties"
2 min
1157
Fred L. Joiner: "Sikasso Snow"
2 min
1158
Hafizah Augustus Geter: "Praise Song"
3 min
1159
Ina Cariño: "Everything is Exactly the Same as ...
3 min
1160
Nabila Lovelace: "Ars Poetica"
2 min
1161
Countee Cullen: "Confession"
2 min
1162
Charlotte Mew: "The Forest Road"
8 min
1163
A. H. Jerriod Avant: "Who Can Govern Themselves...
3 min
1164
K. D. Harryman: "Whipping"
2 min
1165
Karisma Price: "Castnet Seafood"
4 min
1166
Matthew Wimberley: "Materials for a Gravestone ...
4 min
1167
Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
1168
John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
1169
Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
1170
Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
1171
Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
1172
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1173
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1174
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1175
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min