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
1176
Corrie Lynn White: "After Striving"
2 min
1177
Destiny Hemphill: "our own names"
3 min
1178
Diana Marie Delgado: "People to Run From"
3 min
1179
Alfred Kreymborg: "Dance"
2 min
1180
Elizabeth Bishop: "Behind Stowe"
3 min
1181
Erin Rose Coffin: "Remembering Our First Parties"
2 min
1182
Fred L. Joiner: "Sikasso Snow"
2 min
1183
Hafizah Augustus Geter: "Praise Song"
3 min
1184
Ina Cariño: "Everything is Exactly the Same as ...
3 min
1185
Nabila Lovelace: "Ars Poetica"
2 min
1186
Countee Cullen: "Confession"
2 min
1187
Charlotte Mew: "The Forest Road"
8 min
1188
A. H. Jerriod Avant: "Who Can Govern Themselves...
3 min
1189
K. D. Harryman: "Whipping"
2 min
1190
Karisma Price: "Castnet Seafood"
4 min
1191
Matthew Wimberley: "Materials for a Gravestone ...
4 min
1192
Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
1193
John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
1194
Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
1195
Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
1196
Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
1197
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1198
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1199
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1200
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min