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.
1601
Tarfia Faizullah: "Red-Lipped Poem"
2 min
1602
Maya C. Popa: "One Way or Another"
3 min
1603
Emily Pittinos: "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
4 min
1604
Katherine Mansfield: "Voices of the Air"
2 min
1605
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: "Femme Futures"
9 min
1606
Noʻu Revilla: "Welcome to the Gut House"
5 min
1607
Stefania Gomez: "At the New York City AIDS Memo...
3 min
1608
Youmna Chlala: "Night Needs No Stars"
2 min
1609
Tracy Fuad: "Eclipse Season"
5 min
1610
Willa Carroll: "Cloud Demolition"
3 min
1611
Marianne Moore: "Reinforcements"
1 min
1612
Willa Cather: "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
3 min
1613
Meghann Plunkett: "Climate"
2 min
1614
Alicia Mountain: "Drift"
3 min
1615
Monica McClure: "The Heedless Shephard"
2 min
1616
Hannah Aizenman: "As a Father of Daughters"
3 min
1617
Guest Editor Interview: March 2022 Guest Editor...
12 min
1618
Kwame Dawes: "It Bruises, Too"
3 min
1619
Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"
1 min
1620
Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"
1 min
1621
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1622
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1623
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1624
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1625
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min