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
Corrinne Clegg Hales: "1967, Girl and Snow"
6 min
1602
Hera Naguib: "Prologue to a Womanhood"
3 min
1603
Như Xuân Nguyễn: "The Moons of Neptune"
3 min
1604
Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sash...
15 min
1605
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
1606
Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
1607
Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
1608
Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
1609
Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
1610
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
1611
Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
1612
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
1613
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
1614
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
1615
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
1616
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
1617
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
1618
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
1619
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
1620
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1621
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1622
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1623
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1624
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min
1625
Marcus Jackson: "What of Fire?"
2 min