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
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1552
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1553
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1554
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1555
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1556
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1557
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1558
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1559
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1560
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1561
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1562
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1563
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1564
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1565
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1566
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1567
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1568
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1569
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1570
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1571
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1572
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1573
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1574
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1575
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min