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
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1602
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1603
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1604
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1605
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1606
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1607
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1608
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1609
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1610
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1611
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1612
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1613
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1614
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1615
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1616
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1617
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1618
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1619
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min
1620
Didi Jackson: "Bobolink"
4 min
1621
William Stanley Braithwaite: "Near the End of A...
1 min
1622
Joseph Millar: "Venetian Siesta"
3 min
1623
Dorianne Laux: "I Never Wanted to Die"
2 min
1624
David St. John: "Overlooking the Cortile"
3 min
1625
Brian Sneeden: "Memory is Blood Soluble"
3 min