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