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
1576
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1577
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1578
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1579
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1580
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1581
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1582
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1583
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1584
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1585
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1586
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1587
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1588
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1589
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1590
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1591
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1592
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1593
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
1594
Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
1595
Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min
1596
Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyho...
4 min
1597
Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
2 min
1598
Nick Demske: "I let the flies bite me when I me...
3 min
1599
Effie Lee Newsome: "Sunset"
1 min
1600
Tu Fu: "The River Village"
2 min