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.
1526
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1527
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1528
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1529
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1530
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1531
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1532
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1533
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1534
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1535
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1536
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1537
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1538
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1539
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1540
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1541
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1542
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1543
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1544
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1545
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1546
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1547
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1548
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1549
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1550
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min