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 Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1626
Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
1627
Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1628
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1629
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1630
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1631
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1632
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1633
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1634
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1635
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1636
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1637
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1638
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1639
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1640
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1641
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1642
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1643
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1644
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1645
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1646
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1647
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1648
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1649
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min
1650
S*an D. Henry Smith: "Remedies I"
3 min