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.
1626
Aldo Amparán: "Aubade at the City of Change"
4 min
1627
Corrinne Clegg Hales: "1967, Girl and Snow"
6 min
1628
Hera Naguib: "Prologue to a Womanhood"
3 min
1629
Như Xuân Nguyễn: "The Moons of Neptune"
3 min
1630
Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sash...
15 min
1631
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
1632
Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
1633
Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
1634
Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
1635
Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
1636
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
1637
Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
1638
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
1639
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
1640
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
1641
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
1642
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
1643
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
1644
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
1645
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
1646
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1647
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1648
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min
1649
June Jordan: "On Time Tanka"
4 min
1650
Willie Perdomo: "Haikus"
5 min