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 Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
1526
Eugenia Leigh: "Glossolalia"
3 min
1527
Tarfia Faizullah: "Red-Lipped Poem"
2 min
1528
Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"
3 min
1529
Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
4 min
1530
Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"
2 min
1531
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"
9 min
1532
Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"
5 min
1533
Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memo...
3 min
1534
Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"
2 min
1535
Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"
5 min
1536
Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"
3 min
1537
Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"
1 min
1538
Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
3 min
1539
Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"
2 min
1540
Alicia Mountain: "Drift"
3 min
1541
Monica McClure: "The Heedless Shephard"
2 min
1542
Hannah Aizenman: "As a Father of Daughters"
3 min
1543
Guest Editor Interview: March 2022 Guest Editor...
12 min
1544
Kwame Dawes: "It Bruises, Too"
3 min
1545
Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"
1 min
1546
Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"
1 min
1547
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1548
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1549
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1550
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min