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
1501
Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
1502
Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1503
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1504
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1505
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1506
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1507
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1508
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1509
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1510
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1511
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1512
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1513
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1514
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1515
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1516
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1517
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1518
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1519
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1520
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1521
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1522
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1523
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1524
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1525
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min