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
1351
Aldo Amparán: "Aubade at the City of Change"
4 min
1352
Corrinne Clegg Hales: "1967, Girl and Snow"
6 min
1353
Hera Naguib: "Prologue to a Womanhood"
3 min
1354
Như Xuân Nguyễn: "The Moons of Neptune"
3 min
1355
Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sash...
15 min
1356
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
1357
Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
1358
Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
1359
Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
1360
Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
1361
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
1362
Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
1363
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
1364
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
1365
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
1366
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
1367
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
1368
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
1369
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
1370
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
1371
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1372
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1373
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1374
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1375
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min