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.
1151
Michelle Whittaker: "Our Quarantine Story"
3 min
1152
Janine Joseph: "Oh, I’m Dying, I’m Dying,"
3 min
1153
Catherine Barnett: "2020"
3 min
1154
Adelaide Crapsey: "Saying of Il Haboul"
2 min
1155
Hazel Hall: "Disputed Tread"
2 min
1156
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "Pole| |Sport"
4 min
1157
Arisa White: "Curious and Counting"
2 min
1158
Nikky Finney: "The Inflammation"
8 min
1159
Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was ...
4 min
1160
Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"
3 min
1161
Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"
3 min
1162
Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"
3 min
1163
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
1164
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
1165
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
1166
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
1167
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
1168
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
1169
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
1170
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
1171
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
1172
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
1173
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min
1174
Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cic...
3 min
1175
Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"
5 min