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.
1601
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min
1602
Countee Cullen: "For a Poet"
2 min
1603
Gabrielle Marshall: "The Power of Hope Today"
2 min
1604
Marilyn Nelson: "Realization"
4 min
1605
Omotara James: "Pier 52"
6 min
1606
Patricia Spears Jones: "SELF PORTRAIT as retrat...
4 min
1607
Kamilah Aisha Moon: "Disbelief"
3 min
1608
Carl Phillips: "Character Being a Different Thi...
3 min
1609
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "A Wish"
1 min
1610
Mina King: "In Pursuit of Dawn"
3 min
1611
Nate Marshall: "iced out chain from the beauty ...
1 min
1612
Jenny Zhang: "under the chiming bell"
2 min
1613
Tarfia Faizullah: "Surah"
1 min
1614
Phillip B. Williams: "Order of Events"
2 min
1615
Hayan Charara: "Ode on an Abandoned House"
1 min
1616
Theodore Henry Shackelford: "Hope"
1 min
1617
Hallie Knight: "To Rebuild"
1 min
1618
Momtaza Mehri: "Reciprocity is a Two-Way Street"
5 min
1619
Sadia Hassan: "On the Last Day, the Bullet is A...
2 min
1620
Sumita Chakraborty: "The B-Sides of the Golden...
3 min
1621
Eloisa Amezcua: "The Witch Reads Me My Birthchart"
2 min
1622
Alison C. Rollins: "Love in Outer Space"
2 min
1623
Lucian B. Watkins: "Two Points of View"
0 min
1624
H. D.: "Evadne"
1 min
1625
Sanna Wani: "Tomorrow is a Place"
1 min