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.

Books
1601
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1602
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1603
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1604
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1605
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1606
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1607
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1608
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1609
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1610
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1611
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1612
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min
1613
Duriel E. Harris: "What he thought belly down, ...
4 min
1614
Camonghne Felix: "Born. Living. Will. Die."
2 min
1615
Karla Cordero: "Everything Needs Fixing"
4 min
1616
Wo Chan: "the shoes"
4 min
1617
Carl Sandburg: "Good Night"
2 min
1618
Henrietta Cordelia Ray: "July"
1 min
1619
Samiya Bashir: "i traveled the world. it was fi...
3 min
1620
Guest Editor Interview: July Guest Editor R. Er...
26 min
1621
George Abraham: "Searching for a Palestinian Ne...
6 min
1622
dee(dee) c. ardan: "freedom terrors"
8 min
1623
Precious Okoyomon: "The animal that is most vul...
2 min
1624
Tian-Ai: "Aspiration"
3 min
1625
Paul Laurence Dunbar: "With the Lark"
2 min