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.

Books
1651
Guest Editor Interview: August Guest Editor Kaz...
29 min
1652
Dan Rosenberg: "Order"
3 min
1653
Sara Teasdale: "August Moonrise"
4 min
1654
Carrie Law Morgan Figgs: "Life"
3 min
1655
Natasha Marin: "Once upon a Black Imagination..."
3 min
1656
Yanyi: "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
3 min
1657
Ronaldo V. Wilson: "UPON Grief and Grievance: A...
6 min
1658
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal: "I Was a Good Wife"
3 min
1659
Gwen Westerman: "Give-Away Song"
4 min
1660
Maxwell Anderson: "Earth Evanescent"
1 min
1661
George Moses Horton: "Memory"
2 min
1662
Brandy Nālani McDougall: "Resist"
6 min
1663
Sara Marie Ortiz: "Iyáaní (Spirit, Breath, Li...
4 min
1664
Elisabet Velasquez: "Professional Spanish Knock...
3 min
1665
Adeeba Shahid Talukder: "A Love Note"
3 min
1666
Margaret Rhee: "The Year Before I Left For Mars"
4 min
1667
George Reginald Margetson: "The Call to Duty"
4 min
1668
Leonie Adams: "Midsummer"
2 min
1669
Jasmine Reid: "where all, we flowers"
3 min
1670
Roya Marsh: "Rememory"
2 min
1671
Sheila Maldonado: "window on my part-time emplo...
4 min
1672
Dawn Lundy Martin: from "The Laceration"
3 min
1673
Randall Horton: "preface to a traffic stop: sound"
2 min
1674
Lola Ridge: "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
2 min
1675
Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.: "In Summer Twilight"
1 min