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
Hazel Hall: "Disputed Tread"
2 min
1402
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "​​Pole| |Sport"
4 min
1403
Arisa White: "Curious and Counting"
2 min
1404
Nikky Finney: "The Inflammation"
8 min
1405
Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was ...
4 min
1406
Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"
3 min
1407
Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"
3 min
1408
Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"
3 min
1409
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
1410
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
1411
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
1412
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
1413
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
1414
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
1415
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
1416
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
1417
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
1418
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
1419
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min
1420
Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cic...
3 min
1421
Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"
5 min
1422
Anne Reeve Aldrich: "Rose Song"
3 min
1423
Destiny O. Birdsong: "I Go Back to Myself, Apri...
4 min
1424
Kayleb Rae Candrilli: "Daytona 500"
3 min
1425
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The Understudy"
3 min