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
1176
Eugenia Leigh: "Glossolalia"
3 min
1177
Tarfia Faizullah: "Red-Lipped Poem"
2 min
1178
Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"
3 min
1179
Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
4 min
1180
Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"
2 min
1181
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"
9 min
1182
Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"
5 min
1183
Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memo...
3 min
1184
Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"
2 min
1185
Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"
5 min
1186
Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"
3 min
1187
Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"
1 min
1188
Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
3 min
1189
Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"
2 min
1190
Alicia Mountain: "Drift"
3 min
1191
Monica McClure: "The Heedless Shephard"
2 min
1192
Hannah Aizenman: "As a Father of Daughters"
3 min
1193
Guest Editor Interview: March 2022 Guest Editor...
12 min
1194
Kwame Dawes: "It Bruises, Too"
3 min
1195
Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"
1 min
1196
Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"
1 min
1197
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1198
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1199
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1200
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min