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
Dan Lau: "XX Judgement"
2 min
1602
Guest Editor Interview: August Guest Editor Kaz...
29 min
1603
Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
1604
Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1605
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1606
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1607
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1608
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1609
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1610
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1611
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1612
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1613
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1614
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1615
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1616
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1617
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1618
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1619
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1620
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1621
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1622
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1623
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1624
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1625
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min