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
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1502
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1503
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1504
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1505
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1506
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1507
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1508
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1509
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1510
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1511
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1512
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1513
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1514
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1515
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1516
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1517
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1518
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1519
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1520
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1521
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1522
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1523
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1524
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1525
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min