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
1326
Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"
3 min
1327
Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
4 min
1328
Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"
2 min
1329
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"
9 min
1330
Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"
5 min
1331
Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memo...
3 min
1332
Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"
2 min
1333
Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"
5 min
1334
Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"
3 min
1335
Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"
1 min
1336
Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
3 min
1337
Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"
2 min
1338
Alicia Mountain: "Drift"
3 min
1339
Monica McClure: "The Heedless Shephard"
2 min
1340
Hannah Aizenman: "As a Father of Daughters"
3 min
1341
Guest Editor Interview: March 2022 Guest Editor...
12 min
1342
Kwame Dawes: "It Bruises, Too"
3 min
1343
Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"
1 min
1344
Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"
1 min
1345
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1346
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1347
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1348
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1349
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min
1350
Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in S...
1 min