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
Corrie Lynn White: "After Striving"
2 min
1202
Destiny Hemphill: "our own names"
3 min
1203
Diana Marie Delgado: "People to Run From"
3 min
1204
Alfred Kreymborg: "Dance"
2 min
1205
Elizabeth Bishop: "Behind Stowe"
3 min
1206
Erin Rose Coffin: "Remembering Our First Parties"
2 min
1207
Fred L. Joiner: "Sikasso Snow"
2 min
1208
Hafizah Augustus Geter: "Praise Song"
3 min
1209
Ina Cariño: "Everything is Exactly the Same as ...
3 min
1210
Nabila Lovelace: "Ars Poetica"
2 min
1211
Countee Cullen: "Confession"
2 min
1212
Charlotte Mew: "The Forest Road"
8 min
1213
A. H. Jerriod Avant: "Who Can Govern Themselves...
3 min
1214
K. D. Harryman: "Whipping"
2 min
1215
Karisma Price: "Castnet Seafood"
4 min
1216
Matthew Wimberley: "Materials for a Gravestone ...
4 min
1217
Paige Lewis: "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, H...
2 min
1218
John Crowe Ransom: "Winter Remembered"
3 min
1219
Léonie Adams: "A Gull Goes Up"
3 min
1220
Renia White: "off the shore of oneself as in . ...
2 min
1221
Rob Greene: "To the Young Second Lieutenant Sta...
3 min
1222
Sarah Cooper: "Elastic Love Contrapuntal"
4 min
1223
Leila Chatti: "I Went Out to Hear"
3 min
1224
Urayoán Noel: "cinquains written during a tropi...
4 min
1225
Francis Thompson: "New Year's Chimes"
6 min