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
1601
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1602
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1603
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1604
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1605
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1606
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1607
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1608
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1609
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1610
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1611
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1612
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1613
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1614
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1615
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1616
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min
1617
Philip Schaefer: "Gradually Then Suddenly"
2 min
1618
E. C. Belli: "Vows"
2 min
1619
Kyle Carrero Lopez: "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"
4 min
1620
Charles Bertram Johnson: "Serenity"
1 min
1621
Winifred Welles: "Exile"
2 min
1622
Hannah Sanghee Park: "The One Mockingbird Only ...
3 min
1623
Jada Renée Allen: "Interior"
2 min
1624
Dāshaun Washington: "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyho...
4 min
1625
Rachel Moritz: "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
2 min