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.
1576
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1577
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1578
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1579
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min
1580
Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in S...
1 min
1581
Waring Cuney: "No Images"
1 min
1582
Gail Mazur: "The Flea"
3 min
1583
Brandon D. Johnson: "Standing by a Shelf"
3 min
1584
Carl Phillips: "Why So This Quiet"
2 min
1585
Laure-Anne Bosselaar: "Late Afternoon Stroll on...
3 min
1586
E. Ethelbert Miller: "Crossing the Line"
2 min
1587
Helene Johnson: "Trees at Night"
2 min
1588
Arna Bontemps: "Length of Moon"
1 min
1589
Kimiko Hahn: "[The whale already]"
2 min
1590
Robert Pinsky: "Revisionary"
3 min
1591
Martín Espada: "Wake Up, Mario"
9 min
1592
Marilyn Nelson: "Last Mattress"
3 min
1593
Garrett Hongo: "On 'Phantasmagorique #15,' a Pa...
3 min
1594
Clarissa Scott Delany: "Joy"
1 min
1595
Langston Hughes: "As I Grew Older"
2 min
1596
Linda Susan Jackson: "Nailing Things Down"
3 min
1597
Joel Dias-Porter: "Three Wrong Notes"
3 min
1598
Sharon Olds: "Not Once"
3 min
1599
Yusef Komunyakaa: from “Autobiography of My Alt...
5 min
1600
Guest Editor Interview: February 2022 Guest Edi...
10 min