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.
1201
Tommye Blount: "An Act of Love"
3 min
1202
francine j. harris: "Wetland"
3 min
1203
Taylor Byas: "Love Poem Attempt 3/?"
3 min
1204
Sterling A. Brown: "Challenge"
2 min
1205
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "The Venus of Milo"
3 min
1206
Joy Priest: "When I See the Stars in the Night ...
3 min
1207
Willie Lee Kinard III: "Aubade: Nocturne"
5 min
1208
Ariana Benson: "Love Poem in the Black Field"
3 min
1209
Arlene Keizer: "Canopy"
2 min
1210
Nkosi Nkululeko: "Continental Breakfast"
3 min
1211
Claude McKay: "When Dawn Comes to the City"
5 min
1212
Anne Spencer: "Substitution"
3 min
1213
Imani Davis: "Kink"
3 min
1214
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "Brown Estate, 2018 T...
3 min
1215
Evie Shockley: "black love"
2 min
1216
Guest Editor Interview: February 2023 Guest Edi...
13 min
1217
Dorothea Lasky: "This Beautiful Planet"
3 min
1218
Ra Malika Imhotep: "an armistice between my dea...
4 min
1219
Max Eastman: "X Rays"
4 min
1220
Alice Corbin Henderson: "From the Stone Age"
4 min
1221
Camonghne Felix: "Dearly Departed, Again I Drea...
3 min
1222
Chloe Honum: "Devonport"
2 min
1223
Corrie Lynn White: "After Striving"
2 min
1224
Destiny Hemphill: "our own names"
3 min
1225
Diana Marie Delgado: "People to Run From"
3 min