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
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1502
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1503
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1504
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1505
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1506
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1507
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1508
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1509
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1510
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1511
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1512
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1513
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1514
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1515
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1516
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1517
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1518
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1519
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1520
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1521
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
1522
Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
1523
Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min
1524
Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyho...
4 min
1525
Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
2 min