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