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
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1602
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1603
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1604
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1605
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1606
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1607
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1608
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1609
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1610
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1611
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1612
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1613
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1614
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1615
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1616
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1617
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1618
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1619
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1620
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1621
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1622
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1623
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1624
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1625
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min