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.
1576
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1577
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1578
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1579
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1580
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1581
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1582
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1583
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1584
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1585
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1586
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1587
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1588
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1589
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1590
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1591
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1592
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1593
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1594
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1595
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1596
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1597
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1598
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1599
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1600
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min