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
1426
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1427
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1428
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1429
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1430
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1431
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1432
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1433
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1434
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1435
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1436
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1437
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1438
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1439
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1440
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1441
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1442
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1443
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1444
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1445
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1446
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1447
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1448
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1449
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1450
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min