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
1376
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1377
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1378
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1379
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1380
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1381
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1382
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1383
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1384
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1385
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1386
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1387
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1388
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1389
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1390
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1391
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1392
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1393
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1394
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1395
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1396
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1397
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1398
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1399
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1400
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min