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