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
Janine Joseph: "Oh, I’m Dying, I’m Dying,"
3 min
1402
Catherine Barnett: "2020"
3 min
1403
Adelaide Crapsey: "Saying of Il Haboul"
2 min
1404
Hazel Hall: "Disputed Tread"
2 min
1405
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon: "​​Pole| |Sport"
4 min
1406
Arisa White: "Curious and Counting"
2 min
1407
Nikky Finney: "The Inflammation"
8 min
1408
Hanif Abdurraqib: "I Was Told the Sunlight Was ...
4 min
1409
Asiya Wadud: "Shorn, treaded red"
3 min
1410
Carl Sandburg: "River Roads"
3 min
1411
Michael Field: "The Depths of the Grass"
3 min
1412
t'ai freedom ford: "house hunting as an act of ...
3 min
1413
Luther Hughes: [Like the Japanese cherry blosso...
4 min
1414
Ellen Bass: "Fracture"
3 min
1415
Elizabeth Barnett: "You remember the feeling bu...
2 min
1416
Ladan Osman: "Sun to Void"
4 min
1417
William Cullen Bryant: "Summer Wind"
5 min
1418
Else Lasker-Schüler: "Reconciliation"
2 min
1419
Bernard Ferguson: "awaiting a carriage, any"
3 min
1420
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: "The Sunset and the P...
2 min
1421
Omotara James: "A Flair for Language"
4 min
1422
Stephanie Cawley: "Not"
4 min
1423
Marissa Davis: "Ecclesiastes: Thirteen-Year Cic...
3 min
1424
Trumbull Stickney: "At Sainte-Marguerite"
5 min
1425
Anne Reeve Aldrich: "Rose Song"
3 min