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
1551
Ruth Muskrat Bronson: "If You Knew"
2 min
1552
Linda Hogan: "Map"
4 min
1553
Deborah A. Miranda: "Torch"
4 min
1554
Aldo Amparán: "Aubade at the City of Change"
4 min
1555
Corrinne Clegg Hales: "1967, Girl and Snow"
6 min
1556
Hera Naguib: "Prologue to a Womanhood"
3 min
1557
Như Xuân Nguyễn: "The Moons of Neptune"
3 min
1558
Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sash...
15 min
1559
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
1560
Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
1561
Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
1562
Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
1563
Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
1564
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
1565
Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
1566
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
1567
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
1568
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
1569
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
1570
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
1571
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
1572
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
1573
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
1574
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1575
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min