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 Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
1226
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1227
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1228
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1229
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1230
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1231
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1232
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1233
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1234
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1235
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1236
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1237
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1238
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1239
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1240
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1241
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1242
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1243
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1244
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1245
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1246
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1247
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1248
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1249
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1250
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min