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