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

Books
1401
Tanella Boni: from "There where it’s so bright ...
3 min
1402
Guest Editor Interview: September 2022 Guest Ed...
22 min
1403
Michelle Whittaker: "Our Quarantine Story"
3 min
1404
Janine Joseph: "Oh, I’m Dying, I’m Dying,"
3 min
1405
Catherine Barnett: "2020"
3 min
1406
Adelaide Crapsey: "Saying of Il Haboul"
2 min
1407
Hazel Hall: "Disputed Tread"
2 min
1408
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "​​Pole| |Sport"
4 min
1409
Arisa White: "Curious and Counting"
2 min
1410
Nikky Finney: "The Inflammation"
8 min
1411
Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was ...
4 min
1412
Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"
3 min
1413
Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"
3 min
1414
Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"
3 min
1415
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
1416
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
1417
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
1418
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
1419
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
1420
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
1421
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
1422
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
1423
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
1424
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
1425
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min