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
1301
Tarfia Faizullah: "Red-Lipped Poem"
2 min
1302
Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"
3 min
1303
Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
4 min
1304
Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"
2 min
1305
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"
9 min
1306
Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"
5 min
1307
Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memo...
3 min
1308
Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"
2 min
1309
Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"
5 min
1310
Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"
3 min
1311
Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"
1 min
1312
Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
3 min
1313
Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"
2 min
1314
Alicia Mountain: "Drift"
3 min
1315
Monica McClure: "The Heedless Shephard"
2 min
1316
Hannah Aizenman: "As a Father of Daughters"
3 min
1317
Guest Editor Interview: March 2022 Guest Editor...
12 min
1318
Kwame Dawes: "It Bruises, Too"
3 min
1319
Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"
1 min
1320
Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"
1 min
1321
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1322
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1323
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1324
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1325
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min