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
Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés: "Plácido’s Far...
3 min
1177
Angelina Weld Grimké: "The Eyes of My Regret"
4 min
1178
Remica Bingham-Risher: "The Lose Your Mother Su...
3 min
1179
Lynne Thompson: "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni...
3 min
1180
Tommye Blount: "An Act of Love"
3 min
1181
francine j. harris: "Wetland"
3 min
1182
Taylor Byas: "Love Poem Attempt 3/?"
3 min
1183
Sterling A. Brown: "Challenge"
2 min
1184
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "The Venus of Milo"
3 min
1185
Joy Priest: "When I See the Stars in the Night ...
3 min
1186
Willie Lee Kinard III: "Aubade: Nocturne"
5 min
1187
Ariana Benson: "Love Poem in the Black Field"
3 min
1188
Arlene Keizer: "Canopy"
2 min
1189
Nkosi Nkululeko: "Continental Breakfast"
3 min
1190
Claude McKay: "When Dawn Comes to the City"
5 min
1191
Anne Spencer: "Substitution"
3 min
1192
Imani Davis: "Kink"
3 min
1193
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "Brown Estate, 2018 T...
3 min
1194
Evie Shockley: "black love"
2 min
1195
Guest Editor Interview: February 2023 Guest Edi...
13 min
1196
Dorothea Lasky: "This Beautiful Planet"
3 min
1197
Ra Malika Imhotep: "an armistice between my dea...
4 min
1198
Max Eastman: "X Rays"
4 min
1199
Alice Corbin Henderson: "From the Stone Age"
4 min
1200
Camonghne Felix: "Dearly Departed, Again I Drea...
3 min