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
1551
Eugenia Leigh: "Glossolalia"
3 min
1552
Tarfia Faizullah: "Red-Lipped Poem"
2 min
1553
Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"
3 min
1554
Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
4 min
1555
Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"
2 min
1556
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"
9 min
1557
Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"
5 min
1558
Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memo...
3 min
1559
Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"
2 min
1560
Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"
5 min
1561
Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"
3 min
1562
Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"
1 min
1563
Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
3 min
1564
Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"
2 min
1565
Alicia Mountain: "Drift"
3 min
1566
Monica McClure: "The Heedless Shephard"
2 min
1567
Hannah Aizenman: "As a Father of Daughters"
3 min
1568
Guest Editor Interview: March 2022 Guest Editor...
12 min
1569
Kwame Dawes: "It Bruises, Too"
3 min
1570
Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"
1 min
1571
Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"
1 min
1572
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1573
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1574
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1575
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min