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
1626
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1627
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1628
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1629
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1630
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1631
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1632
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1633
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1634
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1635
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1636
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1637
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1638
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1639
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1640
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1641
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1642
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1643
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1644
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1645
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1646
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1647
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1648
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min
1649
Lucretia Maria Davidson: "Twilight"
1 min
1650
Craig Santos Perez: "ars pasifika"
0 min