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
1651
Linda Hogan: "Map"
4 min
1652
Deborah A. Miranda: "Torch"
4 min
1653
Aldo Amparán: "Aubade at the City of Change"
4 min
1654
Corrinne Clegg Hales: "1967, Girl and Snow"
6 min
1655
Hera Naguib: "Prologue to a Womanhood"
3 min
1656
Như Xuân Nguyễn: "The Moons of Neptune"
3 min
1657
Guest Editor Interview: March Guest Editor Sash...
15 min
1658
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: "Thought."
1 min
1659
Langston Hughes: "My Loves"
2 min
1660
Ishmael Reed: "Skin Tight"
6 min
1661
Xandria Phillips: "Black Heroism is Unskilled L...
3 min
1662
Yesenia Montilla: "Naming the Baby"
2 min
1663
Quincy Troupe: "Sonic Fireflies"
3 min
1664
Jacqueline Jones LaMon: "Six"
5 min
1665
Claude McKay: "To Winter"
2 min
1666
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Calling Dreams"
1 min
1667
Vincent Toro: "At Age 28, Chilean Astronomer Ma...
7 min
1668
Kwame Dawes: "How I Pray in the Plague"
8 min
1669
Canisia Lubrin: "In the Vault of Morning"
4 min
1670
Rickey Laurentiis: "Because we love each other"
3 min
1671
Dante Micheaux: "The Day Room"
2 min
1672
Priscilla Jane Thompson: "A Valentine"
2 min
1673
George Marion McClellan: "In the Heart of a Rose"
2 min
1674
Lauren K. Alleyne: "Nothing to Declare"
3 min
1675
Toi Derricotte: "The blue nightgown"
3 min