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
Su Hwang: "Little Matrons"
3 min
1577
Dorothy Parker: "Recurrence"
2 min
1578
Chaman Lall: "Departure"
2 min
1579
Safia Jama: "It’s Not Really about Them, It’s a...
3 min
1580
Jared Harél: "January 20, 2021"
3 min
1581
Christopher Santiago: "Insurrecto"
5 min
1582
Dimitri Reyes: "[Oye! This is an apartment buil...
3 min
1583
Hossannah Asuncion: "Suspending Disbelief While...
3 min
1584
W. E. B. Du Bois: "The Song of the Smoke"
3 min
1585
Mary Weston Fordham: "A Reverie"
2 min
1586
F. Douglas Brown: "Aubade with Edits"
4 min
1587
KC Trommer: "Self-lit"
3 min
1588
Jennifer Martelli: "Corinthians 13:11"
3 min
1589
Patrick Philips: "Having a Fight with You"
2 min
1590
Zohra Saed: "Walnuts in Nangarhar"
2 min
1591
Mina Loy: "Songs to Joannes, VII"
1 min
1592
Yone Noguchi: [The faint shadow of the morning ...
1 min
1593
Jerome Ellison Murphy: "Red Delicious"
2 min
1594
Celeste Guzmán Mendoza: "Man Praying—Encroachment"
3 min
1595
Rohan Chhetri: "Acedia Sestina"
4 min
1596
Truong Tran: from "begin again"
3 min
1597
Cathy Song: "April Moon"
2 min
1598
William Moore: "Here in the Time of the Winter ...
1 min
1599
Carrie Williams Clifford: "The New Year"
2 min
1600
Guest Editor Interview: January 2022 Guest Edit...
16 min