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
1601
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1602
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1603
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1604
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1605
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1606
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1607
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1608
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1609
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1610
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1611
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min
1612
Leila Chatti: "After Touching You, I Think of N...
1 min
1613
Jacqui Germain: "STILL UNBUTTONED & UNBOTHERED:...
2 min
1614
José Olivarez: "poem where no one is deported"
2 min
1615
Khadijah Queen: "Undoing"
1 min
1616
Babette Deutsch: "Silence"
1 min
1617
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.: "My Song"
1 min
1618
Hala Alyan: "Object Permanence"
2 min
1619
Safia Elhillo: "Ode to Sudanese-Americans"
3 min
1620
beyza ozer: "on holding rose water"
1 min
1621
Ladan Osman: "Take Wing Tempo"
2 min
1622
Hieu Minh Nguyen: "The New Decade"
1 min
1623
George Marion McClellan: "A January Dandelion"
1 min
1624
Léonie Adams: "Never Enough of Living"
1 min
1625
Jamila Woods: "Day 29 (2020)"
1 min