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
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1477
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1478
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1479
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1480
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1481
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1482
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1483
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1484
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1485
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1486
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1487
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1488
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1489
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1490
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1491
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1492
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1493
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1494
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1495
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1496
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1497
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1498
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1499
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1500
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min