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
1476
Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
1477
Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1478
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1479
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1480
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1481
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1482
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1483
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1484
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1485
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1486
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1487
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1488
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1489
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1490
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1491
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1492
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1493
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1494
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1495
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1496
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1497
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1498
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1499
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1500
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min